Anyone else get the feeling that this is some sort of 'prisoner's dilemma' where if one person just decided to say fuck it then the 'total exposure' contingency thing would instead actually end the experiment, or at least let that one person out.
Like, the MC thinks total exposure means all of the data is released but that would be totally pointless for an experiment as it would ruin the ability to collect any useful data. Instead by seeing if anybody has the balls or whatever to not play by their rules is, at it's core, actually a sociological experiment that variations of have been conducted for decades.