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The vast majority of bad outcomes of big systems are not because they’re principally designed for evil and just lacking a few dissenters.

Most systems today are intended to produce outcomes that most people agree would be good, and they’re full of people trying to achieve those outcomes, and yet reliably failing to produce them.

There have been books written about this topic as well, but it’s not as flashy as comparing “every system that produces some bad results” to actual Nazis, I have to admit.




Because the underlying meta-system is the one that produces the people. Complete with their understanding of what "good" is.

The important thing is for that energy to be expended in the pursuit of certain outcomes; the goals themselves are already self-contradictory.

The meta-system uses that to reproduce itself. Our lives are secondary to that goal.




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