[93185] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Jan 14 03:38:03 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980113152218.18878E-100000@kizmiaz.dis.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:16:29 -0800
To: William Knowles <erehwon@dis.org>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk,
eternity@internexus.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 3:51 PM -0800 1/13/98, William Knowles wrote:
>Isn't there a microstate off the coast of England called 'Sealand' run
>from a former oil rig/gun battery for the last 20 years?
What Lucky said.
(And read up on the scam ^H^H^H^H scheme called "Oceania," the floating
libertarian non-state. And Minerva, and so on.)
....
>I agree completely, But there is still room for massively distrubted
>datahavens on oil rigs, barges, gun batteries, island nations or
>hiding in Norm's LAN in Cicero IL. All the harder to supress that
>information.
"Room for," certainly. "Economic incentive for," apparently not.
Look, if you can wave a magic want and give us "massively distributed data
havens on oil rigs, barges,....," I'll be the first to cheer.
But the factors I described, and Lucky described, are why it would be a
foolish investment for anyone to build even the first one, let alone the
numbers you are contemplating.
Wishing won't make it so.
--Tim May
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