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If you can see everyone's rank, it works both ways - you build an organization based on encrypted communication and face to face contact, keep your scores average on the network, then you systematically hunt and kill everyone who scores high. I don't think this the end of resistance to totalitarian states. It's easy to talk gamification and how people GO CRAZY for cheevo's, but if people don't want what the game delivers, they have no reason to play it. The incentives might be nice, but if the Communist party of China is really loving resented, Totalitarian Farmville won't save them. Getting a high score will as much be a mark of complicity.
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They don't have to be ninjas or whatever, they can just be a terrorist group like any other. loving knives will work fine. High scorers are going to be normal people (they're easy targets), it's a big flashy attack that grabs headlines (highest score in X district murdered), and it's a great way to look like they're doing something. Like this system is a lot more gimmicky than it looks. It can't read minds, and it doesn't change the fundamental dynamic of stability in China. Political stability in China rests on both economic growth, and the perception that things are going to get better in the future. People are willing to make sacrifices if they think it's worth it. But the system is rampantly corrupt, inequality is only going to go up (You think the same group of people running the state corporations are going to give a toss about inequality?), and the full political suppression is only going to make the much needed reforms impossible to implement. What do you think is going to happen when that growth stalls, and all the proles realize that the middle class prosperity they were promised is never coming? You think a game is going to save them? People will just stop playing, cheat, or cruise by on mediocrity. Having a higher score may itself carry a stigma of being a suck-up (or if the regime is really loving hated - a collaborator). China is not stable, it just has yet to encounter a crisis. Full political suppression just means that there is no outlet valve for that frustration, and that it's going to keep accumulating dysfunction over time. The whole thing will eventually go off a cliff. All the social-media game will do is make sure anyone sympathetic to the regime lives in their own echo chamber, where critical thinking is not tolerated and pulling the party line (however self-contradictory) is the only thing that matters. It is destined to fail. rudatron fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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