# Power

Power is the ability to make others act. It can rest on force, on money, on the consent of those ruled or on the stories a society tells itself. Gödel’s worry about a rule set that can be bent from inside belongs here.

Connects to:
- [Society](https://mapideas.org/i/society)
- [broken signature](https://mapideas.org/i/p_sig)
- [outside built in](https://mapideas.org/i/p_out)
- [Who decides?](https://mapideas.org/i/te_dual)
- [Can power check itself?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_check_power)
- [Who should decide about AI?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_ai_decide)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Power (social and political)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political))

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