If only poor people had ecash. OTOH, they probably don't sue if a nickle
catches them in the eye. Might yell at you, though. A $3/hour money leak
in public doesn't sound like a bad thing to me, especially when I have a
job. Now convince the gummints it's deductible off the top of my income
:).
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Dan Fabulich wrote:
> >
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> >
> > > I want to, around once per ten minutes whenever I'm not at home,
> > > spontaneously emit a nickel. The nickel should have a chance of striking
> > > any given person within 20 meters which is proportional to the inverse of
> > > the square of the distance between us.
> >
> > I tried this out for a while. You'd think it'd be a good idea, but it
> > mostly just pissed off passers-by.
>
> It really doesn't work unless you use ecash. That was kind of the whole
> point here. I just happen to think that, socioeconomically, people should
> behave a bit more like fundamental particles.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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