From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 07:54:51 MDT
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat@pacbell.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: RE: NEWS:Why 'Terrordaq' will come - if the Pentagon likes it or
not
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
> > ### I wouldn't be surprised if the Pentagon went
> > ahead with a covert futures
> > market, open to FBI/Homeland
> > Security?CIA/NSA/OtherUnheardOfSpyAgency
> > employees, so as to allow aggregation of data among
> > persons most likely to
> > have data in the first place, with a big "Top
> > Secret" stamp on it and some
> > deniability (perhaps as in a tolerated semi-informal
> > betting market to be
> > ditched if the sanctimonious crowd gets wind of it).
> > Almost all the benefits
> > of PAM, none of the exposure to idiots.
>
> Problem: the market attracts intel from people who
> would not normally otherwise give intel. "Hmm. Big
> brother Mufasa said he's gonna blow up that 'Merican
> base tomorrow. I don't care for 'em either, but I
> can get fifty bucks by betting that base will be
> attacked within a week. That's a lot (to the
> extremely poor masses that happen to exist - and
> produce a lot of the terrorist front line - in
> countries that produce terrorists, whether or not
> there is any actual causality)! Hmm...yeah, sure I'll
> place a bet. Go get 'em, big bro, so I can eat for a
> month!"
>
> Yes, the smart ones would know there's a connection.
> Even assuming they'd care enough to forego their own
> monetary gain, "smart" implies "smarter than average
> for the given populace", and we's only need a few of
> the remainder to get greedy.
### I notice you answered my post, which contained the following words: "a
covert futures market, open to
FBI/HomelandSecurity/CIA/NSA/OtherUnheardOfSpyAgency employees".
Rafal
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