Thoughtful. Interesting.
But there also needs to be a generally accepted but supersecret superethical super-accountable superforce, within and through the system, that can overrule and counteract evil in the power structure and the public (and without, in coordination with equals - or true betters - in other systems) as it arises. Supersystem power is dynamic, relational, ethically-calibrated - and potentially or actually absolute, as appropriate.
(Maybe I read too much Plato. "The Good" Can it really be as simple as that? Ultimately, yes. It's a digital formula. A cascade, as applied. Why choose the bad, if you know better? Why not know better, if you can? Etc. Etc.)
Superscience and the imperatives of quantum ethics make this sort of supersystem possible ... probable... as a matter of course.
Heinlein called it "BuSab", Bureau of Sabotage, in "The Cat who Walked Through Walls" [sic?]
Robert Anton Wilson hinted at this when in "The Illuminati Trilogy" he had the powerful elite sadistic bad guy take his introduction to the real super-elite Illuminati from his butler.
Basically, the system is such that the very fabric of reality itself is sensitive to the ethics of everything in the system (and many things without), and then systems are designed to tap this sensitivity and monitor all entities and systems within and without (including themselves), in such a way that the total system and everything in it and without (including the monitoring system) is also subject to monitoring and correction (and cancellation).
But what are its limits?
It took awhile to perfect. It is extremely difficult to create (we puny humans could only help evolve it, actually) a system potentially both open and closed, internally and externally directed, that can effectively monitor and correct itself and everything within and without. It is structurally similar to the age old problem of human consciousness and behavior in shared reality: of will vs. desire, self-knowledge, self-control, fate ...justice.
The problem, from a total systems perspective, is that open systems of conscious beings are comprised of more/less interactive and self-referential loops of potentially reinforcing imperfect information. The elements (simple beings) and systems (next-level collectives) have imperfect information as to themselves, as to elements within them, as to external elements in their own fullness, and as to their own significance for external elements and systems.
The same problem would be faced by all active, sentient, co-determined self-referential systems, short of God Almighty. This nested imperfect relational awareness, in extension, is a good basic description of the structure of reality for us humans and anything like us.
You might notice that, in this system design, the whole and the parts are all capable of suicide. Interesting. The right ... the ability ... to die. For all, as they reasonably choose. Nothing to do with Armageddon, actually... just to exclude it, in any unbounded sense. For so long as pain and evil are not patently impossible, and most urgently while they are strongly and possibly persistently present, it is necessary to have non-being (nothing) as an alternative to being. For the avoidance of infinite agony, it is impererative to include the possibility of whole system suicide in the design of any probabalistic self-referential system.
But there are limits, after all... even now.
Because of its completion in the far future where mobilization of power in service of trans-temporal goodness is trivially easy ... it is already here, working, in many ways.
But because of its origins in (and effects from) an earlier and less complete time to which we are also informatically related, it can not yet be disclosed in its fullness.
Unfortunately, paradox prevents full disclosure until ... it was.
Because for us the total system was also self-referential through the time dimension (as iterative cumulative non-commutative sequence) ... it is not just a matter of time ... it's a matter of what we do with it....each and every one.
PQ
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