A system can be more evil than the sum of the evil of its human parts. If you don’t account for emergent evil, you’ll end up with a useless morality where you can’t distinguish between people within human range of good/evil at all. It’s like adding a big constant to your y-axis.
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to maximize the evil synergy coefficient, each intervening step of evil coagulation has to appear to those committing the act to be not evil or only a little evil. this means that visibility of the consequences of action has to be limited. whole org operating with blinders on.
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so in addition to a high degree of verticality there also has to be a low degree of interconnectivity. hierarchical tiers have to be isolated from everything except the tier immediately below (subordinates) and immediately above (supervisor).
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the most synergistically evil orgs possible, then, are totalitarian bureaucracies with limited internal accountability mechanisms and an infallible singular leader at the top.
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Maybe a corollary is that graphs might make better org structures? They're neither vertical nor horizontal on average.
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it's hard to deliberately decide to have that kind of org structure. vertical hierarchies and horizontal syndicates are naturally emergent from having either top-down or bottom-up organizational control structures.
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the holocracy idea is an attempt to deliberately have a decentralized graph org structure but it has many limitations and I'm uncertain it can actually scale to large sizes without collapsing into either a vertical or horizontal org.
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