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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] contest<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>No, it was trivial. I highlighted your name, right clicked, selected search DuckDuckGo. It was the first result.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That much is free. Of course they'll sell you the juicy deets if you want them.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Dave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave perhaps you recall about 20 yrs ago when we were talking about this a lot: privacy slips away over the years. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There was a fun joke in Asimov Laughs book that went something like this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Two dejected old men sit quietly on park bench. One of them muses: A lifetime. A lifetime of good deeds. Medical school, hard work, generosity, charity work I did. Meh. I would walk down the street, old ladies would point after me and say “There goes Mrs. Schwarzkopf’s boy, fine boy, so proud. DOCTUH he is, DOCTUH Schwarzkopf, that boy…” Everywhere I went, they were so proud. Then one time, just ooone time, I get caught with oooone little pecker…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I referenced that very old joke to make a point, something that SR or someone pointed out recently: in our world today, there is no longer any away to run to, if you screw up bigtime. We are running out of away.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eliezer predicted this back in about 1999. He said something along the lines of: Memory is already cheap and getting cheaper. Access is already fast and getting faster. Search engines are improving. It will become harder and harder to outrun your past. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eli offered an example of something he posted to one of the alt.groups when he was 13, a short story SciFi story about Barney the purple dinosaur, a bit of text which embarrassed the 18 yr old Eliezer to no end. Of course we all looked it up, and I thought it was marvelous for a 14 yr old. But he opined if he had a time machine, he would go back to 1993 and not post that story.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I just looked, it’s still there, a 27 yr old piece of writing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we generate any juicy deets in our lives, they will never go away. The stain of embarrassment can never be washed away. Clarification: for those capable of that particular emotion, it can never be washed away. For me it would be more like an ink stain on a black trousers. But for normal people the stain of embarrassment can never be washed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quoting Eliezer’s prescient words: The internet never forgets.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>