From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 12 1996 - 15:50:55 MST
Eliezer Yudkowsky writes:
>The goal: Make citizen privacy complete and government privacy zero
>except for secret weapons and such.
There's a lot of work to do here to delimit all the "and such".
Governments currently enter into a wide range of international
negotiations, on trade, pollution, foreign policy, etc. They would be
at a disadvantage if everyone knew their negotiating position.
This may be a price worth paying, however.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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