From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 22:20:32 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/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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