Especially true if you hear it in your head, rather than hearing it from someone else. Of course, only update on surprising instances—if you expect it, you already know you’re in an oppressive regime and shouldn’t update further.
Note, with sufficiently expansive definition of “regime” to include social norms, and “oppressive” to include any restriction of your impulse to be a jerk on some topics, you’re already at (100 - epsilon)%, so the only direction to update is downward, when you feel perfectly free to say something.
Proposed heuristic: Any time you hear “don’t talk about that”, update toward the hypothesis “there is an oppressive regime here”
Especially true if you hear it in your head, rather than hearing it from someone else. Of course, only update on surprising instances—if you expect it, you already know you’re in an oppressive regime and shouldn’t update further.
Note, with sufficiently expansive definition of “regime” to include social norms, and “oppressive” to include any restriction of your impulse to be a jerk on some topics, you’re already at (100 - epsilon)%, so the only direction to update is downward, when you feel perfectly free to say something.