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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by hanshan on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:03PM (#17516541)
>we could watch the people that watch us.

If this were possible, there would be no authority

Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by loa-in-backup on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:18PM (#17516687)
Careful, this might sound intuitive but be deathly wrong
Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by hanshan on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:45PM (#17518444)
Care to elaborate on your concerns? We're obviously speaking theoretically here at a high level of abstraction
Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by loa-in-backup on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:42AM (#17522038)
My concern is that it might be possible to watch each other while keeping authority. You say it's not possible as if there was some kind of proof.
Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by hanshan on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:04PM (#17524692)
If everyone can watch everyone with equal transparency, that would seem to imply a distributed system with information symmetry, which is antithetical to centralized authority. If there was a central authority/super admin in such a system, how would you keep them from covertly creating information asymmetry?