if I ignored moral concerns, is there a world where keeping the majority ignorant could actually lead to more efficiency than letting knowledge of the state of things spread?
No, because systems and complexity and chaos theory: To be a good regulator of a system you need to be a model of that system and a small elite can’t model the lower ranks, no matter how much GPUs you give them to run ML1 on, as humans not to speak of societies are chaotic systems and there are no closed-form solutions to those.
Which is why hierarchical power is a completely bonkers idea that’ll never work out and the only way out is to develop horizontal structures of organisation. That is, become an anarchist, the only political theory mathematically proven (see above) to even have a chance of working out.
No, because systems and complexity and chaos theory: To be a good regulator of a system you need to be a model of that system and a small elite can’t model the lower ranks, no matter how much GPUs you give them to run ML1 on, as humans not to speak of societies are chaotic systems and there are no closed-form solutions to those.
Which is why hierarchical power is a completely bonkers idea that’ll never work out and the only way out is to develop horizontal structures of organisation. That is, become an anarchist, the only political theory mathematically proven (see above) to even have a chance of working out.
1 Pun not intended but accepted.