[hanshan]

>we could watch the people that watch us.

If this were possible, there would be no authority

[loa-in-backup]

Careful, this might sound intuitive but be deathly wrong

[hanshan]

Care to elaborate on your concerns? We're obviously speaking theoretically here at a high level of abstraction

[loa-in-backup]

My concern is that it might be possible to watch each other while keeping authority. You say it's not possible as if there was some kind of proof.

[hanshan]

If everyone can watch everyone with equal transparency, that would seem to imply a distributed system with information symmetry, which is antithetical to centralized authority. If there was a central authority/super admin in such a system, how would you keep them from covertly creating information asymmetry?