Yes, that makes sense. My modifications to Goro took it from being an aesthetic part of Hygge to being a critical element that induces randomness to perform some sort of social experiment that lets it create, observe and trigger paradigm shifts.
The State Machine is a social democratic system where the ‘democratic’ is increasingly turning to performance theater because of the sheer complexity of the system: however, it ensures free education, healthcare, and a certain Keynesian Welfare State approach. It had individual agency. @Joriam, what are Kiri and Sata optimizing for, and what principles are they running on?
I could certainly see a political system where politician-programmers constantly propose new updates to Kiri and Sata, and the public votes on them: and this is a very highly contested arena. And furthermore, systems as complex as Kiri and Sata, no matter how deterministic the proposed updates, would exhibit chaos. More so with Goro in the mix. And thus there will be interesting histories of simple/good ideas that led to complex, disastrous emergent effects.
Re: Denton being the origin of this schizophrenic system. I am still not entirely sold on why it exists in the first place, but this conflicts with @Joriam’s canon of an intentional split. I would like to see some rationale for this - I can picture Denton splitting the State Machine up to give it less power over his increasingly curmudgeonly life, but we will need some consensus on this.
@petussing @joriam what do you think? Also, best if we move this discussion to Hygge. Easier to keep track of, and more relevant there.