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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 November 2011 10:17:18AM 0 points [-]

We should also first figure out how we're going to keep sociopaths from taking over the program.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 November 2011 10:26:39AM 0 points [-]

Ensure the role doesn't allow much in the way of status, money, power or any other form of personal gain. Unfortunately that is hard to do given the possibility to gain the aforementioned goods via the opportunity to accept bribes.

The most obvious way to go about prevention would be to institute excessively redundant amounts of transparency.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 November 2011 10:33:53AM 1 point [-]

Ensure the role doesn't allow much in the way of status, money, power or any other form of personal gain.

Running a big, important research project which will shape decisions about what to do with a large number of people? There's no way to keep money, status, and power away from that.