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Politics is a harder problem than friendliness: politics is implemented with agents. Not only that, but largely self-selected agents who are thus usually not the ideal selections for implementing politics.
Friendliness is implemented (inside an agent) with non-agents you can build to task.
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Friendliness can only be implemented after you've solved the problem of what, exactly, you're implementing.
Right, but the point is you don't need to get everyone to agree what's right (there's always going to be someone out there who's going to hate it no matter what you do). You just need it to actually be friendly... and, as hard as that is, at least you don't have to work with only corrupted hardware.