[ExI] former exi poster is smiling

[William Flynn Wallace]

, Dylan Distasio wrote:

> 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...
>

​Solve this problem.

Build a big cage. Fill it with geese.  Put a fox in there.  Limitation: the
only thing you can do is to take the fox out and put another one in.

bill w​

>
> 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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