October 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cypherpunks are revolting
by professor rat 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

Since Bismark the state form has added Ponzi social-security schemes to its traditional protection racket. The immediate challenge for crypto-anarchist revolutionaries is to destroy the protection rackets while maintaining a social-safety-net many now rely upon. Make partial destroy. Fortunately crypto-currencies make this a snack. Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt What forbids us translating the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life? I think that blockchains will replace armies for national defense, because a blockchain-based assassination market will be created…" Zach. CryptoGo

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New York State Bar Association Urges UN To Launch War Crimes Tribunal To Investigate Russian Federation's Invasion of Ukraine - New York State Bar Association
by Gunnar Larson 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

https://nysba.org/new-york-state-bar-association-urges-un-to-launch-war-cri… The New York State Bar Association is urging the United Nations to establish a war crimes tribunal to investigate the invasion of Ukraine. “During our nearly 150-year history, the New York State Bar Association has been a champion of the rule of law and human rights. We must establish a tribunal to make certain that justice is served,” said association President Sherry Levin Wallach. The association’s Executive Committee, acting on behalf of its governing body, the House of Delegates, voted today to ask the UN to investigate and prosecute members of the Russian military and government for violations of international law including human rights violations, crimes against humanity and aggression. The tribunal would be similar to the courts that investigated war crimes in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Cambodia.

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Immortality: Genomics, Uploads, Synthetics
by professor rat 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

" . . . Personally, I don’t mind the idea of being turned into mulch. . . ." Words of wisdom for Grarpamps and his fellow list trolls, Garofalo and Semich - ROT in PEACE Where they burn Transhumanists - there they will burn Transexuals I may be tending synthetic - but I'm not stupid enough to self-immolate over it. The range of possibilities open to a conscious being in cyberspace is difficult to even begin to visualize. You would become effectively immortal within a computer program, immune to disease, aging, or injury. You could inhabit a fantasy world not subject to our physical laws, possessing the power to metamorphose into any form, or instill your consciousness into any object within the program. You could possess the power of flight, or the ability to perform telekinesis. You could modify your existing environment on a whim into forms unknown on Earth, or seemingly anywhere. Not that an upload is limited to the environment within a program. If the concept is feasible, then we should be able to place the computer program within any vessel that can sustain it.

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