From: Mike Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 13:22:16 MDT
Emlyn wrote:
> After it hits the billions, there's no way I'd give them the money.
>
> Why?
>
> Because billions are conspicuous. People would notice, the media would
> report it; I'd be able to find out who it was. And I'd want to contact that
> person, because there's a fair chance they'd throw me a few scraps for
> having been such a damned nice guy.
>
> Unfortunately, the rules stipulate that the person can never find out about
> me. So, I can only assume that whoever is running the competition is going
> to do something rather frightful to me, to enforce that rule, because they
> know I'm going to try to violate it (I've posted it in a public forum after
> all). These people have the ability to grant billions of dollars to random
> humans. That's scary.
>
> So I'd say no, then go hide under the bed.
>
So you don't trust yourself to have the integrity to obey a contract? And you
don't trust anyone else to have the integrity to obey a contract to not
communicate with the news media about this event? Pretty cynical.
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