[ExI] disinfecting sunlight

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 7:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…Now… Musk is not even suggesting he will take away their power, but he
> is bringing transparency, which is accountability.
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> >…Can anyone find a way to argue this is a bad thing please?  Do
> elaborate.  spike
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> This appears to be a most rare thing: someone with enormous power
> voluntarily giving up power.  By taking on responsibility, in the form of
> accountability for enormous power, Musk is limiting his own power (in a
> way) by volunteering transparency.  Musk just paid tens of billions of
> dollars… with a stated goal of limiting his own power.
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> Has anything like this ever happened in history?  When?
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One could make comparisons to certain of George Washington's actions in the
first several years of the United States of America.
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