From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 05:12:02 MDT
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:37:19PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, FutureQ wrote:
>
> > Another reason for the Moral Majority to hate transhumanism.
>
> Transparency is not transhumanism's goal. It's just Brin's party line. In
> absence of total anarchy total transparency is just intelligence's wet
> dream. And you really, really don't want to go there...
People always seem to forget that there is a land between total
transparency and attempts at a cloaked cyphertopia: open societies. Since
it is easier to discuss tech than social stuff, we often forget that the
best way of dealing with tech like this is the creation or change of
social institutions. If the government is spying, you better change the
government or make sure it is kept accountable.
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