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-----Original Message-----
From: John K Clark <johnkc@well.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 2:11 PM
Subject: Gov't loves gov't
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|On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org> Wrote:
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| >It [the market] works better than any of the known alternatives,
| >I'll concede that much. Question: why the hell isn't anyone looking
| >for new, hitherto-unknown, alternatives?
|
|
|It's true that there are an infinite number of systems, and it's also
|true that due to a bad chip in my Quantum Computer I have been unable to
|examine each and every system individually. I have however managed to examine
|all the simple ones, and the vast majority of systems can be eliminated
|immediately because they are too complicated to be of any use.
|
|If I want to sell something, and you want to buy, we agree on a price and
|make the exchange, end of story. It's understandable to both of us, it's
|simple, it's elegant, it works. A system that was as simple as the market and
|worked as well, would have been found by now, and as I have not heard any
|reports of this interesting development, leads me to believe that it does not
|exist. A protocol that needs 10 years of super computer time before I can buy
|a can od beer is not better than the market, regardless of what it's other
|virtues may be.
|
|
| John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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