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Originally Posted by Piesum

-For starters, how did sibyl judge misako togane, if she’s supposed to be criminally asymptomatic, and if shes supposed to be part of their collective identity in the first place?

At that moment as Kasei, she was the individual brain acting as the avatar in charge. Each brain can still be judged by the system since it is still an individual.

Also, keep in mind that not every brain in Sibyl are criminally asymptomatic. The original system had brilliant minds contributed to it, who were not criminals, probably mostly scientists. Asymptomatic criminal brains were added later on as they were found to "enhance" the system.

Originally Posted by Piesum

How did sibyl judge itself as a collective whole, if everyone is criminally asymptomatic in sibyl?

Not everyone is asymptomatic as stated before. Essentially, as more asymptomatic criminals are put into Sibyl, the more it has upgraded to the point that it can catch those types of criminals. If one of their brains now show up as criminal, it can be removed since another asymptomatic brain can detect it now or the system overall can detect it. Essentially, it removed all the criminally asymptomatic brains and kept all the ones it deems non-criminal (please note that this does not mean the brain aren't actually criminal, it is just that Sibyl judges the remaining as non-criminal under it's criteria). As a result, with it's new criteria, it can judge itself as a group, since no one in that group has broken the "rules" that Sibyl has used to judge.

The effect of all this, however, is that Sibyl now has less processing power, which it will need to replace eventually.

DMurphy makes a great point with it.

Originally Posted by Piesum

I know it was touched on in another episode, but I don't really see the benefits of judging society as a collective whole either. Sure, that means sibyl can judge people like kirito, but in the end, why should it always be applied.
it's ether going to weed out the people with high crime coefficients (which is what it's doing right now anyway) or it's going to wipe out entire groups/ society as a whole, or the witch hunt thing that was mentioned.

It makes it more efficient now. If Sibyl can judge a who society, it can eliminate large groups of people at once instead of going one at a time. Also, as mentioned in the episode, if the individuals in the group might be clear, but then the whole group acts in a way that is dangerous, the group can be judged now instead of individuals. Yes, it's dangerous to generalize like that, but that's the direction the story is heading. If it wants, it could judge another country as dangerous and send forces to destroy it, for example.

Originally Posted by prototype_sky

Wonder if there is a chance that some of the enforcers go back to normal now with the new judgement system

The old criteria still should apply in Sibyl, so I don't think it will change from the enforcers.