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You could sell the services of one of these via Bitcoin. Have a killer drone primed and waiting, do a crypto based auction and then the drone would autonomousl

You could sell the services of one of these via Bitcoin. Have a killer drone primed and waiting, do a crypto based auction and then the drone would autonomously lift off and perform the mission.

vmception 5y ago
Using a surveillance coin for a surveillance mission, a match made in heaven! It would make more sense to do this privately and anonymously, so Monero or funds obfuscated with Tornado.cash on the Ethereum network would suffice and a computer can still react to payment received and begin operating.
nostrademons 5y ago
For extra chaos, control the drone with a smart contract where people vote on who to kill. The person with the most votes gets offed, and then it continues down the list of targets until it reaches a threshold where we no longer consider this "aggregated, anonymous data" (Big Tech usually uses 50 data points or so). The interesting thing about this is that nobody pulls the trigger. You don't get killed because somebody wants you dead; you get killed because lots of people want you dead. And then everybody is hidden in the mob, and not really responsible for your death; after all, if 49 other people didn't also want you dead, you'd still be alive. If studies on diffusion of responsibility (eg. Kitty Genovese) are true, then it's likely people will be pretty free with their nominations, knowing that the person won't actually end up dead unless lots of other people also nominate them. Mass carnage is likely to result.
- perilunar 5y ago
  That's pretty much the plot of the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation" [1], except instead of smart contracts it was Twitter hashtags (and there was a nasty payback). 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
- darepublic 5y ago
  I think it would be illegal to participate in any way purposefully even if your nomination has a minimal chance of being selected. Enforcement is another matter
KirillPanov 5y ago
Yeah, since the mid 1990s people had been predicting that anonymous electronic money would lead to the collapse of society because people would create assassination markets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market Guess what, eleven years later society has not collapsed and there are no assassination markets. Turns out that murderous psychopaths are not as commonplace as the statists would have us believe, and those that exist are not really into it for economic reasons.

You could sell the services of one of these via Bitcoin. Have a killer drone primed and waiting, do a crypto based auction and then the drone would autonomously lift off and perform the mission.

vmception 5y ago

Using a surveillance coin for a surveillance mission, a match made in heaven! It would make more sense to do this privately and anonymously, so Monero or funds obfuscated with Tornado.cash on the Ethereum network would suffice and a computer can still react to payment received and begin operating.

nostrademons 5y ago

For extra chaos, control the drone with a smart contract where people vote on who to kill. The person with the most votes gets offed, and then it continues down the list of targets until it reaches a threshold where we no longer consider this "aggregated, anonymous data" (Big Tech usually uses 50 data points or so). The interesting thing about this is that nobody pulls the trigger. You don't get killed because somebody wants you dead; you get killed because lots of people want you dead. And then everybody is hidden in the mob, and not really responsible for your death; after all, if 49 other people didn't also want you dead, you'd still be alive. If studies on diffusion of responsibility (eg. Kitty Genovese) are true, then it's likely people will be pretty free with their nominations, knowing that the person won't actually end up dead unless lots of other people also nominate them. Mass carnage is likely to result.

perilunar 5y ago
That's pretty much the plot of the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation" [1], except instead of smart contracts it was Twitter hashtags (and there was a nasty payback). 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
darepublic 5y ago
I think it would be illegal to participate in any way purposefully even if your nomination has a minimal chance of being selected. Enforcement is another matter

KirillPanov 5y ago

Yeah, since the mid 1990s people had been predicting that anonymous electronic money would lead to the collapse of society because people would create assassination markets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market Guess what, eleven years later society has not collapsed and there are no assassination markets. Turns out that murderous psychopaths are not as commonplace as the statists would have us believe, and those that exist are not really into it for economic reasons.