This is the problem of authoritarian hierarchical systems; bad news will be suppressed internally out of fear of upsetting higher-ups, making responses too slow even when there are things like the Contagious Disease National Direct Reporting System: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html …
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Replying to @anderssandberg
Whereas in a democratic and free system, we can easily waste 6 crucial weeks in a state of denial because of groupthink and bad info incentives ...
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Early warning systems != response systems. Both needed, one or both can be broken. My prediction is democracies are better at maintaining the first than authoritarian systems. On paper they should be great at it, but consider past examples like Chernobyl: principal-agent bites.
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Your prediction is falsified by the chart of new cases of this disease in various countries that are more or less authoritarian The least effective responses have been from the most "democratic" (US); the most from the most authoritarian (SG, Taiwan) using authoritarian measures
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