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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Replying to @vgr
How do you compute the evil synergy factor in an organization?
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Replying to @vgr
first intuition on the subject: evil compounds while traversing up hierarchies and disperses while traversing down hierarchies. the greater the degree of verticality in an organization the greater the the coefficient of evil that org is capable of producing.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
organizations where power has been devolved towards the base, and that have a more horizontal or syndicated org structure are still capable of committing evil but the evil synergy coefficient is limited because of the naturally cellular nature of such orgs.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
Maybe a corollary is that graphs might make better org structures? They're neither vertical nor horizontal on average.
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Replying to @JatinJhala @vgr
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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