From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 02 1998 - 06:48:39 MDT
John Clark wrote:
> >Then it will become globally apparent that national currencies are
> >in fact an unregulated but inferior form of supervised neural
> >network (i.e., all those cumbersome hidden layers, the invisible
> >hand of capitalism, etc.)
>
>The best way to improve the world's currencies is to increase the amount
>Of speculation on them not decrease it. If an individual would rather
>be paid in pounds than dollars let him, if a nation tried the old
>tax by inflation trick people could just switch to a better currency.
I think this misses the point. Imagine that your brain and my brain were
hybridized (possibly through/with an AI). At that point, we would no
longer use an "economy" to allocate resources; we'd just make up our
collective mind and go for it. So the goal is not to eliminate
speculation, but to eliminate the economy and replace it with a different,
very complex system.
I think. Legg's posts have a very high buzzword ratio.
> >Capitalism is not a natural law of nature, as some like to say,
>
>I like to say that there are many parallels between capitalism and
>Thermodynamics as well as Evolution.
This is interesting. What sort of parallels do you see?
>That's the fatal flaw in Brin's idea, he doesn't like encryption but he
>never makes clear exactly how he plans to stop people from using it.
The impression I got was that Brin thinks encryption will be pointless when
one can maneuver a fly-sized camera into your home and watch you type in
the cleartext of your message before you have a chance to encrypt it.
Heck, reading the cleartext even beats OTPs. ;)
Personally, I'm dubious as to the degree to which this is possible; it's
certainly not possible in realtime, but the fly-camera could work if it
recorded onto some kind of very small RAM system and then returned home to
upload the recording onto a larger computer. Diffraction problems could be
solved by having multiple bugs staring at the same thing and having a
computer sort out what the true image looks like. Again, not possible in
realtime, but if the bugs took shifts, it wouldn't be a big issue.
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