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Old 2013-02-20, 20:57   Link #255
Vallen Chaos Valiant
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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Originally Posted by Qilin View Post
It's not all that different except that the evaluators can read minds, which might be more reliable than any interview... though could be wrong there. Also, to note, such experts usually aren't given much decision making powers. Those are usually just left to bureaucrats.
The mind reading is a physical tool. It does not require the Sybil system to use. So it does NOT show Sybil as having any advantage over ordinary human government departments.

And Experts who make decisions become Bureaucrats.

My point stands. I don't understand your faith in the Sybil system when it is nothing new. If anything it is like the Wizard of Oz, an old man hiding behind a curtain while the gizmos and contraptions hides what is really going on.

Instead of the old cyberpunk of finding out the leader is a computer, we have the computer ended up being humans in disguise.
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