From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 03:22:18 MDT
"spike66 wrote:
Roger that. The blood of these victims of the Virginian
terrorist is on our hands. And all the kidnap victims
and most rape victims in the past 8 years at least.
We have had the tech to stop this kind of crime and we
didn't use it, all in the name of privacy.
Privacy schmivacy, thats what I say. Transparency is
the right way. Total, thorough, mutual transparency.
Information wants to be freeeee!"
"The keyword here is *mutual* transparency. Let's start by tracking all
elected officials and legislators, and any bureaucrat making more than
$50,000/year, then work our way down.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/"
I think there are a number of principles with privacy. It should be
respected except with regard to ensuring sysop is in place including with
regard to ensuring protective shielding, access to resources (including
assemblers and self-boosting tech), access to exiting mechanisms from
virtuality (VR) and the like. Not good to have Saddam torturing Iraqi
dissidents in some bad VR environment (some "hell") for example. Finally
where privacy is violated for the above reasons, the information should
remain confidential (i.e. used for that purpose alone and not actively
disseminated outside that). That's my view.
Avatar Polymorph
Towards Ascension
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