Re: Truth Machines and Open Networks

Yak Wax (yakwax@yahoo.com)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 09:02:22 -0800 (PST)


Hara Ra wrote:

> > So would you mind giving up privacy for absolute truth?
>
> If it were completely transparent and accessible for everybody,
> including knowing who's looking at what.

Of course.

> Problem is, like disarmament, how to initiate the needed
> unilateral moves in a world where there's lots a meano control
> freeks who want you to disrobe first...

Well, it wouldn't happen as - "give up your privacy and make a better
world." Absolute truth is a potential biproduct of a global meta
network, so the only reason anyone would "disrobe" is to gain the
advantages of the technology on offer.

--Wax

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