It might be useful to make such requests more explicit.
It might be useful to make explicit how much progress has been made. Most of the discussion has anchored on Baudrillard and the number 4, but it’s not clear that you wanted that. Is this even supposed to be a discrete qualitative model, or is it continuous and the stages are just for verbal convenience? (“The system wireheads itself” vs “the system wireheads employees” is the only thing that jumped out at me as object-level qualitatively distinct.)
It might be useful to make such requests more explicit.
It might be useful to make explicit how much progress has been made. Most of the discussion has anchored on Baudrillard and the number 4, but it’s not clear that you wanted that. Is this even supposed to be a discrete qualitative model, or is it continuous and the stages are just for verbal convenience? (“The system wireheads itself” vs “the system wireheads employees” is the only thing that jumped out at me as object-level qualitatively distinct.)