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> our choice is between a society where the police surveil us all, and one where we all surveil each other This idea is explored further in Nick Bostrom's Vuln
by jborichevskiy 7y ago
> our choice is between a society where the police surveil us all, and one where we all surveil each other
This idea is explored further in Nick Bostrom's Vulnerable World Hypothesis under "Preventive policing". It's depressing but does walk through this scenario in more detail than most.
> The vulnerable world hypothesis thus offers a new perspective from which to evaluate the risk‐benefit balance of developments towards ubiquitous surveillance or a unipolar world order.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.12718 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.1...
- cardiffspaceman 7y agoHow is everyone surveilling everyone different from East European (former) model of everyone telling on everyone?
- arpa 7y agoNow, now, comrade, let the westerners have fun too.
- cardiffspaceman 7y agoHeh. I'm the one who says that the roads should be toll-free so that there aren't financial transactions with which to track activists.