SRF: crypticl
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Oct 19 20:24:52 PDT 2013
> > ...
> > how much is the data dragnet comparable to evaluating populations
> > in these fuzzy terms, as if any aberration or anomaly will snap-to-fit
> > in some framework of illegality to be used for biased prosecutions
> > ...
> Show me the man and I will find you the crime.
> -- Lavrentiy Beria
>
In a world were laws typically are many thousands of pages long,
universal surveillance is a problem.
Laws and regulations have been expanding exponentially. It is said, but
is impossible to verify or falsify, that ever person with significant
business interests commits around three felonies a day.
I get the impression that the rate of increase is itself increasing,
which projects to a left singularity - infinite legislation in finite
time in our near future, but I don't have the numbers to project when
the singularity arrives.
Is there any way to find the total amount of legislation in each year?
It used to be that one could know how much regulation by sizing the
federal register, but this is no longer the case. We have already hit
the event horizon of regulation, in that the federal register has ceased
to have any meaning. These days most regulations cannot be found in any
well defined or meaningful place, and if they could be found it would
not be much use, since current doctrine is that regulations are defeated
by people merely obeying them, since this always leads to the law of
unintended consequences, that mere obedience is a sneaky form of
de-regulation. Rather, those regulated should believe and have faith in
the purposes for which the regulations were passed. As was illustrated
with the Bank of Beverly Hills, compliance with regulations no longer
suffices: Holiness, faith, and zeal is required. Ye shall not be saved
by works, but by faith. For Beverly Hills bank, it was insufficient to
obey the regulators. Their staff had to believe in the regulators.
We are close to reaching the same situation in legislation as we have
already achieved in regulation, where legislation becomes a form of
prayer, as regulation already has, so that the mere words on paper cease
to have meaning or effect.
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