Re: uploads, identity, etc

From: Felix Ungman (felix@hu.se)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 03:39:43 MDT


on 2001-06-04 06.55, Lee Corbin at lcorbin@ricochet.net wrote:
>
> NO: it's "statist" derived from the word "state". In
> politics, a statist is someone who believes in the powers
> of the state and thinks it good. Here, it is someone who
> believes that
>
> All important qualities of a system depend only upon the
> present configuration of the system, and in principle any
> given characteristic of the system can be captured by some
> (perhaps extremely large) description.

So, how does statism shape the legal system with regard to forking?
Collective punishment?

/felix



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