[ExI] former exi poster is smiling

[Dylan Distasio]

I certainly love your enthusiasm, and hope your predictions are right!  I
doubt the current powerbrokers are going to go gently into that good night
though...

On Jan 30, 2018 5:36 PM, "Christian Saucier" <csaucier at sovacs.com> wrote:

> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *spike
> > Some here might recall Julian Assange occasionally posting on ExI twenty
> or more years ago.  A few of us formed an off-list chat group where he
> posted more frequently but he was always very one-
> > dimensional.  He was all about government transparency being the best
> path to accountability.
>
>
>
> Wikileaks is necessary because governments are *necessarily *unaccountable.
> Unfortunately, Wikileaks is (still?) a centralized organization (I hope
> someone there is working on that).  So opponents do what they do: attack
> the head.  Julian is paying an unfair price for our sunlight.
>
>
>
> Transparency is necessary, but it is clearly not sufficient.  We need what
> Nick Szabo calls: social scalability.  With the right technology, we could
> improve our ability to engage with one another more easily, across broader
> networks, and for a growing number of applications, **while minimizing
> the need for trust**.
>
>
>
> We need to decentralize the Wikileaks vision of transparency, hopefully
> before Julian dies of old age in illegal detention by secretive governments
> that have too much to lose, and too much to hide.
>
>
>
> This decentralization is happening now, using secure, transparent, and
> open source systems.  Bitcoin was just a test.  Electronic money works.
> The case is made.  Now we can decentralize everything.  Including funding
> for defense and the roads!  We can decentralize financial markets, supply
> chains, entertainment, virus defense and electronic surveillance.  We can
> decentralize health and medicine.  And maybe, if we do it before an idiot
> (male OR female, any skin color, including orange, I don’t discriminate) in
> Washington DC hits the wrong button, just maybe, we’ll be able to
> decentralize the singularity before the secretive “amazon-alibaba-facebook
> nation state” version of it enslaves or kills us all.
>
>
>
> Maybe I’m being a little melodramatic for a Tuesday afternoon, but this is
> happening now.  PaX Americana (sic!) is falling apart.  The Pharaohs that
> rule our world are playing chess again.  That’s not good for any of us.  We
> need smart people to help build, adopt, and promote transparent alternative
> solutions to our broken opaque centralized systems.
>
>
>
> Peace!
>
>
>
> C.
>
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