When authoritarians get loose

[andrewducker]

This is fascinating. A large, complex world-sim was played with a large group of people. Beforehand they were divided up according to their results on a personality test designed to find out how authoritarian they were. The authoritarians all played a game together, and then the wishy-washy liberal types played a game together. They weren't told what the test was about, or how they were being split up.

Can you guess which group managed the planet reasonably well and which one managed to have a nuclear war and over a billion people dead of starvation?

Comments

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

All sorts of fundamental flaws in that, but even so I think it does show a general trend of outcomes. The crunch of course is in a mixed game. How large a percentage of RWAs can the world survive having? Hopefully more than we currently have...

Oh and btw, I'm retarded and find your userpic association with being goth quite offensive.
:D

[andrewducker]

Serves you right for your love of wearing black and listening to bleeping/crunching sounds.

Oh, and I agree that we need people with all sorts of approaches. See my response to henrikdsal above...

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the last time I listened to bleep.

I'm not sure we need all the approaches - it's more that we've got them, like it or not. The question is how much of the bad we can cope with before it all goes pop...

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I was wearing blue jeans and a white shirt last night.