3 ms·

You'll know exactly how to start your business and you'll have lots of software around you that makes it very easy to not do things that will make nearby people

You'll know exactly how to start your business and you'll have lots of software around you that makes it very easy to not do things that will make nearby people want to kill you. You won't be able to just do things using your internal assumptions of "how normal people work". That way of thinking will end, outside of some traditionalist preserves. Social norms were necessary for basic economic and legal coordination before we had communications networks. They're being replaced for those functions. They'll be kept on for more limit use in actual social interactions.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
I think I prefer the alternative where a rule of law exists, and not everyone is presumed to be waiting to kill me when I fail to check their particular murder list on the blockchain.
- erikpukinskis 10y ago
  The network of contingencies would be much richer than just a "murder list". For example, if anyone had a "murder list" with arbitrary people on it, and was killing people for no reason, then a whole body of people would step in and murder that person back in self defense. You would be able to see at a glance the extent to which someone's values align or don't align with yours, so that you could decide how to act on them. If someone with a murder list started to approach you, you could very easily summon a mob of people to protect you.
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    > you could very easily summon a mob of people to protect you That's a good idea. But what if the mob is busy? We should probably have some people on stand-by all the time, like a rotating watch system. Or, better yet, we could just pay some people to be on watch all the time. Empower them to protect us. We could train them, too, and equip them. Maybe there could be a telephone number to summon them, too. Something short and easy to remember. Maybe with three digits?
    - erikpukinskis 10y ago
      You can have awareness of how busy the mob is and make decisions about risky behaviors on that basis.

pavel_lishin 10y ago

I think I prefer the alternative where a rule of law exists, and not everyone is presumed to be waiting to kill me when I fail to check their particular murder list on the blockchain.

erikpukinskis 10y ago
The network of contingencies would be much richer than just a "murder list". For example, if anyone had a "murder list" with arbitrary people on it, and was killing people for no reason, then a whole body of people would step in and murder that person back in self defense. You would be able to see at a glance the extent to which someone's values align or don't align with yours, so that you could decide how to act on them. If someone with a murder list started to approach you, you could very easily summon a mob of people to protect you.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  > you could very easily summon a mob of people to protect you That's a good idea. But what if the mob is busy? We should probably have some people on stand-by all the time, like a rotating watch system. Or, better yet, we could just pay some people to be on watch all the time. Empower them to protect us. We could train them, too, and equip them. Maybe there could be a telephone number to summon them, too. Something short and easy to remember. Maybe with three digits?
  - erikpukinskis 10y ago
    You can have awareness of how busy the mob is and make decisions about risky behaviors on that basis.