be discussed without censorship.
I can describe how I think AP ought to be implemented, but I've always pointed out that nothing would stop a different person or organization from starting an AP-type system that works with different rules. So, I can't force an agenda on an AP-system.
I believe that implementing an AP system, like I describe, will lead to a truly-free market and individual freedom. It will do so, first, by eliminating governments as we currently know them. I think that should eliminate the method by which many in current society maintain their positions of power, including inequality.
On 12/11/18, jim bell <
jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
> furrier <
furrier@protonmail.ch>
> Furrier:
> I notice that you haven't responded to my comment. Do you not have any
> answer? You claim to not "agree" with me. If that were the case, you
> should be able to explain why.
> Why don't you think AP could work? What do you believe wouldn't work about
> it?
> Jim Bell
>
> On Sunday, December 9, 2018, 11:22:37 PM PST, jim bell
> <
jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> [apparently the address for the CP list wasn't the one I normally use]
> My comments inline:
>
> On Sunday, December 9, 2018, 3:23:09 PM PST, furrier
> <
furrier@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
> >I watched you live both in Acapulco and Prague. I don't agree with you
> and I don't understand how can people be so naive to think that AP
> can actually work.
>
> Prior to the invention of the RSA encryption system (public-key) the vast
> majority of the population would not have understood how such a thing could
> work.Prior to the invention of the TOR system, the vast majority of the
> population would not have understood how such a thing could work.Prior to
> the invention of Bitcoin, the vast majority of the population would not have
> understood how such a thing could work.Prior to the invention of Ethereum,
> the vast majority of the population would not have understood how such a
> thing could work.
> But does the opinion of the public determine whether a given invention can
> work? Your statement implies that the opinion of the masses is somehow
> determinative of whether a technical advance should work.
> Can you explain why you think that AP shouldn't work? Today? Your
> position would have sounded plausible in 1995-96. Then, your technical
> ignorance approximated virtually everyone else's. But a lot has happened
> since then.
>
>
> >I am against the whole idea
>
> I am fond of pointing out that governments killed about 250 million people
> in the 20th century. See "Democide".
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide (although, the definition varies;
> some people don't consider people killed in war to be victims of Democide.
> I consider that position to be insanely foolish.) Were you against that?
> If you were, how important do (or did) you think it was that this murder be
> stopped?
> If you agree that it was wrong that governments murdered 250 million people
> in the 20th century, then it is inaccurate to say you are against the WHOLE
> idea of AP. Because most people seem to agree that if AP was implemented,
> governments would no longer be able to kill people in such vast numbers,
> ever again. Maybe your (confused) position is that you don't want
> governments to kill people, but you cannot figure out how to stop that from
> occurring. Well, you can't, but I can. Am I really wrong?
>
>>, it's the same thing as
> cracking down on cryptocurrency
>
> You do not explain that connection.
>
> >or dark markets to fight terrorism.
>
>
> You do not explain that connection.
>
>>If you want to fight terrorism
>
> That depends on the definition of "terrorism". The U.S government doesn't
> define "terrorism" as mere random violence against innocents, but adds the
> condition that the motivation of the terrorist is to change laws or
> government, or both. But to the extent that terrorism attacks innocents, I
> agree it is wrong. And must be stopped.
>
>> build a society where terrorism is mute.
>
>
> How about building a tool that makes "terrorism" completely unnecessary.
> Tim McVeigh didn't have a "magic bomb" which, when detonated, killed only
> the top 30 government employees responsible for the Waco massacre, even
> though they might have been hundreds of miles away from each other. Do you
> think that if McVeigh HAD access to such a "magic bomb", he would have
> preferred instead to destroy an entire building in Oklahoma city filled with
> innocents and relative-innocents? I consider such a position preposterous,
> and probably you'd agree as well. AP can be described as a "magic weapon"
> that can be used to target precisely the actual problem-causers, with little
> and probably no collateral damage. Please explain your precise objection to
> implementing it as I advocate.
>
>>Similar, if you want to fight politicians, build a society where politics
>> are
> either mute or they don't affect our lives so much. Wake up people!
>
>
> If you can explain how to do that, speak up.
> I am reminded of a joke, where a comedian says he bought a book titled "How
> to be a successful millionaire!". The first page of the book simply
> contained the words, "First get a million dollars".
> But how?
>
>