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dfabulichyesterday at 9:43 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yes and no. You're right to notice that this is an example of a more general problem called the principal-agent problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

We have no general-purpose solutions to the principal-agent problem, but we have partial solutions, and they only work on humans: make the human liable for misconduct, pay the human a percentage of the profits for doing a good job, build a culture where dishonesty is shameful.

The "lethal trifecta" is just like that other infamously unsolvable problem, but harder. (If you could solve the lethal trifecta, you could solve the principal-agent problem, too.)

Since we've been dealing with the principal-agent problem in various forms for all of human history, I don't feel lucky that we'll solve a more difficult version of it in our lifetime. I think we'll probably never solve it.