Re: Truth Machines and Open Networks

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
06 Feb 1998 18:02:53 +0100


Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> writes:

> Yak Wax 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.
>
> 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...

Like Trevor Goodchild? (A transhumanist dictator in the animated
series "Aeon Flux") He literally disrobes and institutes an
"everybody-watches-everybody" policy - while still keeping some dirty
secrets for himself.

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