
------=_Part_259692_252577611.1446314995160 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; f= ont-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, = sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaN= eue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size= : 13px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56527"><div style=3D"font-family:= HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif= ; font-size: 16px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56526"><div dir=3D"ltr= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56525"><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56524"><b><span style=3D"font-weight:bold;"= pent thousands of hours in Federal prison law libraries, I studied many dif= ferent areas of law, far beyond criminal law and appeals, including copyrig= ht law. I am not aware that copyright law would protect such an idea.= If I had written a play or a script for a movie, THAT would be my ow= n under copyright law. But not merely the underlying idea. Now,= nothing would prevent one of these studios from giving me some sort of cre= dit on a line at the end of the show, but they wouldn't owe me money legall= y. I am much more upset that they took TWENTY FUCKING YEARS to steal = the idea, than the fact they 'stole' it.</div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1= 446229456410_56549"> I should also take the opportunity to poi= nt out that I wrote my AP essay independently from, and completely unaware = of, the previous discussions by Tim May and Robin Hanson. (I didn't e= ven have Internet access, except as a portal, until mid-1995, and was entir= ely unaware of the Cypherpunks list; AP part one was actually publish= ed here by somebody else.).</div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_144622= 9456410_56549"><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_= 56549"> The major differences included: Tim May and Robi= n Hanson both referred to the idea, the one that would one day be seen as "= assassination markets", as being "abhorrent markets". See Cyphernomic= on 16.16.4. That they were repelled by the idea, presumably, is one reason = they didn't rhetorically follow the concept out to its ultimate, logical ou= tcome. I, on the other hand, and totally unaware of their work, thoug= ht that assassination markets would actually be a truly wonderful idea, pre= cisely because of their capability to destroy governments, make militaries = unnecessary and indeed impossible to maintain (critically, including nuclea= r weapons), and completely replace the current 'criminal justice system' wi= th a far-fairer alternative. THEY merely stuck their big toes into th= e cold pool, whereas I did a belly-flop. (With the accompanying pain,= <sigh>). </div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_14462294564= 10_56549"><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549= "> They probably started out by thinking something like, "If p= erson A can anonymously hire person B to kill person C, that could lead to = mischief." Sure it could. But I approached the problem differen= tly: I saw that very few people would want to pay, say, $10,000 to bu= y someone else's death. But I immediately also saw that 10,000 people= might want to pay $1 each for that outcome. That amounts to a crowds= ourced decision, with its accompanying advantages and benefits. And I= also saw that such a functioning system would deter virtually everything w= hich we call wrong in today's society. Anybody who is trying to argue= against an AP-type system is inherently attempting to defend the hugely fl= awed status quo, even if they don't realize that.</div><div dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"> I also solved David Friedman's = "Hard problem", see his book, "The Machinery of Freedom", the previou= sly-assumed difficulty or impossibility of providing for the defense of a f= ully libertarian or anarchistic society. Perhaps my big advantage was= that I didn't know Friedman's "Hard Problem" even existed, at least under = that label, until long after I'd already solved it. </div><div dir=3D"= ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"> <br></div>= <div dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"> &nbs= p; Jim Bell</div><div dir=3D"ltr" = id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56549"><br></div> <div class=3D"qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class=3D"yiv2095771975yqt31= 85438982" id=3D"yiv2095771975yqt43260"><div class=3D"yiv2095771975gmail_quo= te" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1446229456410_56546"><br></div></div></div></div></d= iv> </div> </div> </div></body></html> ------=_Part_259692_252577611.1446314995160--
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