Nos hablan Scott Alexander y Nick Bostrom de una hipotética dictadura absurda... sin dictador; un país donde la gente se autosuministrase continuamente electroshocks por miedo a la presión social.

Bostrom makes an offhanded reference of the possibility of a dictatorless dystopia, one that every single citizen including the leadership hates but which nevertheless endures unconquered. It’s easy enough to imagine such a state. Imagine a country with two rules: first, every person must spend eight hours a day giving themselves strong electric shocks. Second, if anyone fails to follow a rule (including this one), or speaks out against it, or fails to enforce it, all citizens must unite to kill that person. Suppose these rules were well-enough established by tradition that everyone expected them to be enforced.

So you shock yourself for eight hours a day, because you know if you don’t everyone else will kill you, because if they don’t, everyone else will kill them, and so on. Every single citizen hates the system, but for lack of a good coordination mechanism it endures. From a god’s-eye-view, we can optimize the system to “everyone agrees to stop doing this at once”, but no one within the system is able to effect the transition without great risk to themselves.

Scott Alexander, "Meditations on Moloch." 

         https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

En España ya estamos en esa dictadura absurda y kafkiana—el régimen del despotismo sanitario, que nos impone llevar mascarillas en todo momento y situación social para aparecer en público, y perjudica a los cerebros, creando talibanes sanitarios que (sumados a la policía) se encargan de señalar y castigar al que no cumple con la norma de autoagresión.

Y la falta de oxígeno y aire fresco tampoco hace nada por aumentar la inteligencia media del personal ni su claridad de pensamiento—muy al contrario.

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