There’s another mechanism which is a bit more like paperclipping: rulers come up with random ideas, which they think are doing good because their yes-men say so. (Example]. So you have two mechanisms, one which can go anywhere, and one which converges onto a narrow set of features, such as having multiple sexual partners. In view of the second mechanism, it becomes clear what a great piece of social technology the idea of an Official Opposition is.
There’s another mechanism which is a bit more like paperclipping: rulers come up with random ideas, which they think are doing good because their yes-men say so. (Example]. So you have two mechanisms, one which can go anywhere, and one which converges onto a narrow set of features, such as having multiple sexual partners. In view of the second mechanism, it becomes clear what a great piece of social technology the idea of an Official Opposition is.