[ExI] government corruption & Transhumanism

[G P SINGH]

This is in response to the corruption debate. What exactly now we are  
discussing in this post ? Original issue was about italians and then  
the topic moved toward trasparency international's CPI's ranks...

I want to  assert it in light of transhumanism. The measurement of  
corruption is theoretically not possible by statistics because it is a  
crime. And crime is by definition secret. So corruption is not  
measurable. In this context role of transhumanist philosophy would be  
twofold (you can suggest three or four or ....)


1. How can we measure corruption by means of science and technology ?
2. How can we reduce so called corruption by means of S&T?


I think that before measuring one need to define corruption  
operationally. So a monetary corruption would be right where value of  
transaction is monitorable. So issues arise here of access. Can we  
access swiss bank ? Can we access other persons private data? It would  
be a big issue in USA i feel. So corruption has to be followed  
precisely. So technologies like eTranscation or eBanking or electronic  
tracking of fund can be used.

Answering to second question brings me to rafal, can there be a  
genetic cause of corruption ? If yes then genetic therapy can solve  
this problem. Or can we find innovative use of punishment for exaple  
assigning a social anticorruption rank to each node in social network.  
And then reward the least corrupt node. Here i am using the existing  
hierarchy conscious approach of cultures to reduce corruption.

Can we have precise views of other members instead of rhetorics ?


GP

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Girindra Pratap Singh
Scientist-SD,
Indian Space Research Organization
ISRO Satellite Centre
Department of Space, Government of India
Bangalore-560017, INDIA