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Fair points. What if everyone else's information was open and accessible so that nobody could hide anything from anybody thus removing potential asymmetric know
by meddlepal 9y ago
Fair points. What if everyone else's information was open and accessible so that nobody could hide anything from anybody thus removing potential asymmetric knowledge?
- 13of40 9y agoSuppose someone didn't want their grandparents to know they were gay.
- aplummer 9y agoOr worse, the government of a country where that gets you the death penalty.
- gregmac 9y agoWorse still, a government comes to power in your country and changes the law so you get the death penality, and it's retroactively enforced by looking through everyone's location history.
- meddlepal 9y agoYea, this is a troubling one. I brought up my original post as a thought experiment and I think some arguments presented were better than others. Governments are fallible just like human beings. I suppose in some sense it is arrogant to believe the US will always remain a democracy and certainly other countries have much more tumultuous histories. I still like the idea of a totally open and transparent society but without something totally incorruptible and unbiased taking the role of government it does not seem practical.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoWhat about consent?
- astronautjones 9y agoThere are systems of power that will never fall that make this egalitarian idea irrelevant (and dangerous)