[14897] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crime and punishment in cyberspace - 3 of 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc Weber)
Wed Jun 8 19:02:58 1994
From: Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 15:51:19 PDT
From: Jim Miller
Better people make a better world. A committee should be
formed to develop specifications describing a good person. The committee
could then launch a program to guide society to a future where everyone
met or exceeded the recommended specifications.
...............................
Better yet, why not build your own!
With the growing field of robotics & nanotechnology, you could just
grow your own version of the perfect citizen (all in your own image of
virtue&morality). There would be no objections, then, to "frequent
quality assurance testing to guarantee rapid convergence to the desired
goals. [Automatons] who did not meet the specifications would be
[rewired into] the program."
And there would be no protests or rants regarding privacy, since there
would be no need, since everyone would be alike and predictable in
their "values" & "ambitions".
Blanc
