[conspire] (forw) [skeptic] These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds

[Ehud Kaldor]

I agree with this, theoretically. But the problem is that the people who
build this technology are not forced to put such means in, and even if they
were, there will always be exemptions and plain cheats.

In Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is a decendent of Holocaust
survivors, in a quest to make sure there is never another one. The point he
makes is that it's impossible to educate people against hating others and
trying to genocide them. The only way you can prevent that is to make sure
the potential victims be ready to strike back.

This point stuck with me very long.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 15:38 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):
>
> > I was thinking more about "little brother" environment, which does not
> seem
> > so fictional since about a year plus ago...
>
> I commend to you the thoughts of science fiction author David Brin on
> this subject, including his non-fiction book _The Transparent Society_.
> Brin's basic thesis is that a modern democratic society cannot hope to
> ban surveillance or to pervasively defeat it, but can tame it by making
> it accountable, including measures taken to ensure that people who are
> being snooped upon can know _who's doing the snooping_ (and being
> notified contemporaneously that this is happening).  Basically, he says
> that a achivable and sufficient goal is to remove the asymetry from the
> information-gathering, e.g., by 'sousveillance' upwards against the
> elites.
>
> http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/search/label/privacy
>
>
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