National People’s Congress
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National People’s Congress is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and April 05, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “culminating in the National People’s Congress, which recently voted to re-elect Xi”; “decided by the usual decision-making methods of the National People’s Congress”. It most often appears alongside America, China, US.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: April 05, 2023
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- Xi (2 shared issues)
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- Xi Jinping (2 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- Alan Turing (1 shared issues)
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- American consulate (1 shared issues)
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- Attorney General (1 shared issues)
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- authoritarianism (1 shared issues)
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- Axis (1 shared issues)
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- Axis (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The inner levels have real power, and the outer layers are theoretically overseers but actually rubber stamps. Things get more and more rubber-stampy as you go out, culminating in the National People’s Congress, which recently voted to re-elect Xi by a vote of 2,970 in favor, 0 against - it’s so irrelevant that it’s literally called “the NPC”.
This isn’t to say the future won’t have controversial political issues. Should you be allowed to wirehead yourself so thoroughly that you never want to stop? In what situations should people be allowed to have children? (surely not never, but also surely not creating a shockwave of trillions of children spreading at near-light-speed across the galaxy). Who gets the closest star systems? (there will be enough star systems to go around, but I assume the ones closer to Earth will be higher status) What kind of sims can you voluntarily consent to participate in? I’m okay with these decisions being decided by the usual decision-making methods of the National People’s Congress, the US constitution, or Meta’s corporate charter. At the very least, I don’t think switching from one of these to another is a big enough deal that it should trade off against the chance we survive at all.