Electracy: Evil Revisited
Nick Szabo
szabo at netcom.com
Fri Aug 13 00:58:20 PDT 1993
While I'm dubious about the trend towards E.D. with our current
physically-bounded, coercive governments, I'm quite interested
in this proposal which seems to (embedded within the hoopla :-)
be for starting an E.D. system outside the boundaries of normal
government, a virtual area of what Extropians call "Privately Practiced
Law" (PPL) within the anarchy of the Internet.
The Extropian list (extropians-request at gnu.ai.mit.edu)
has been experimenting with a kind of mini-totalitarian
justice system for a while, and we are now experimenting with
the Hawthorne Exchange reputation market. Both experiments
have revealed much room for improvement, but they are
valuable as tentative first steps towards virtual
PPLs, an important part of the cypherpunks vision.
It would be quite interesting to set up an E.D.-based PPL,
with both public reputation-based and anonymous voting.
Especially interesting, but seemingly difficult, would be
mechanisms for evauluating the consequences of specific laws
being enacted, so those benefits or penalties could be fed back and
added/deducted from accounts of those who voted for for/against
the law. Quite interesting! I look forward to more specifics,
perhaps I'll think of some myself.
Nick Szabo szabo at netcom.com
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