<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We could also generate random email traffic from random sentences or<br>paragraphs selected from our inboxes, emailed to recipients with prearranged<br>spam filtering. Thus our email history could be buried in reams of<br>
meaningless bits. It would require a human agent or human equivalent<br>intelligence to distinguish the real email from the randomly generated<br>variety.</blockquote><div><br>Bonk! Spike loses his personal discount for therapies under the Bradbury patent on an extended life genome for suggesting a stupid waste of resources (
i.e. promoting unsustainable activities). My Gmail spam folder has 252 items in it this morning (I haven't emptied it in a couple of days) -- we do *not* need more SPAM, pointless searches, etc. generating more *noise* using up useful network bandwidth and computing resources! [1]
<br><br>As others point out there are good solutions to the "be anonymous and avoid big brother" problem. There are extropic (sustainable) things one can do with ones computing resources (the @HOME projects [2]) and bandwidth (the distributed routing/proxy projects others have mentioned or even BitTorrent sharing of "extropic" texts).
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. Examples of the extropic value of minimizing unproductive use of network bandwidth and dedicating ones "extra" bandwidth to "useful" activities include:<br><ul><li>Faster searches and web page downloads (available human mind time is currently a primary constraint on the singularity -- humans are not very good at context switching (thinking about something else) when the time slices are measured in seconds).
</li><li>Allowing the people in police states to have greater access to "prohibited" information (e.g. let the Chinese read about their 'real' history and discuss it if they want to).</li><li>If we manage to stamp out SPAM, useless queries, etc. the network bandwidth will be available to enable human mind level AI to be developed independent of "state" control (a few thousand PlayStation 3's on a Verizon FIOS network should be sufficient [at least in terms of the processing power requirements -- I make no calls on the software requirements]).
<br></li></ul>2. The best of these I believe is still Folding@Home. SETI@Home is probably a complete waste of time and GIMPS falls somewhere in between.<br><br></div></div>