From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 00:32:31 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hanson" <rhanson@gmu.edu>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: The Future of Secrecy
> At 02:20 PM 6/20/2003 -0700, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> >. It's worth noting that in the world of full transparency information
> >is no longer different from real property in terms of enforceability and
> >verifiability of contracts - it can be sold, and its theft can be
prevented
> >just as in the case of apples. ...
>
> I think you need pretty extreme transparency before this is true. I was
> focusing more on various intermediate degrees of transparency.
### Weren't we talking about a world with no conscious lies? If you can ask
somebody "Would you knowingly use stolen information?", and receive a
verifiably truthful answer, you will be able to trace information as well as
apples. Once you have verifiability of the superior, conscious layer of the
mind, the range of illicit behaviors stemming from subconscious biases will
be quite limited, at least in minds reasonably similar to humans.
Rafal
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