<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">dave sill wrote <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">It's also proven the futility of trying to construct a government with limited powers</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">And yet, look at how good we have it. Yeah, people are thieves, every one of us, and all of us need to be monitored down to our toes. But just how much privacy would that system destroy? For me, you could make me count pennies and make good if I come up short. But the way it is now, the more power they have, the more privacy they want for their under the table deals. Quis epsos custodes custodiet? Maybe that problem will take care of itself the more we use AIs to do our work. (Even here in the most corrupted state in the US, the legislature has passed a law about restricting campaign funds to use in campaigns! A big win for us.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Which brings up the question - is there any way to bribe an AI? Will there ever be a program that is unhackable?</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">bill w.</span></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:04 PM Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:10 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-2341716255743471789m_4092409213736248896WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The things they wrote and did make so much sense in that light, Time has proven them so very right: power corrupts.</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's also proven the futility of trying to construct a government with limited powers.</div></div></div>
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