The BlackList

[Cari Machet]

incredible brain functionality and the basis of the justice system >>>>>
death penalty supporters state it as deterrent

your idea solves that

i will try to find that book ... not on amazon so thanks

restorative justice is a form mostly in development but actually it is old
and tribes use it still today ... just western development is lagging

yay enforcement of shit is a problem until you have lived making some
fucking goon leave a space ... it works too well and is organic ... a purge
by organisms

fuck the state in everyone

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:09 PM, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> *From:* Cari Machet <carimachet at gmail.com>
> *To:* coderman <coderman at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* cpunks <cypherpunks at cpunks.org>; jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 30, 2015 8:03 PM
> *Subject:* Re: The Black List
>
> >Law mother fucking suit ... i will contact my lawyer friends - see if
> anyone thinks you have standing
>
>     Don't bother.  It was somewhat of a joke for me to mention the "story
> royalty" line.   Since having spent thousands of hours in Federal prison
> law libraries, I studied many different areas of law, far beyond criminal
> law and appeals, including copyright 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 own under copyright law.  But not merely the
> underlying idea.  Now, nothing would prevent one of these studios from
> giving me some sort of credit on a line at the end of the show, but they
> wouldn't owe me money legally.  I am much more upset that they took TWENTY
> FUCKING YEARS to steal the idea, than the fact they 'stole' it.
>
>     I should also take the opportunity to point 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 even have Internet
> access, except as a portal, until mid-1995, and was entirely unaware of the
> Cypherpunks list;  AP part one was actually published here by somebody
> else.).
>
>     The major differences included:  Tim May and Robin Hanson both
> referred to the idea, the one that would one day be seen as "assassination
> markets", as being "abhorrent markets".  See Cyphernomicon 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 outcome.  I,
> on the other hand, and totally unaware of their work, thought that
> assassination markets would actually be a truly wonderful idea, precisely
> because of their capability to destroy governments, make militaries
> unnecessary and indeed impossible to maintain (critically, including
> nuclear weapons), and completely replace the current 'criminal justice
> system' with a far-fairer alternative.  THEY merely stuck their big toes
> into the cold pool, whereas I did a belly-flop.  (With the accompanying
> pain, <sigh>).
>
>     They probably started out by thinking something like, "If person A can
> anonymously hire person B to kill person C, that could lead to mischief."
>  Sure it could.  But I approached the problem differently:  I saw that very
> few people would want to pay, say, $10,000 to buy 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 crowdsourced decision, with its
> accompanying advantages and benefits.  And I also saw that such a
> functioning system would deter virtually everything which 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 flawed status quo, even if
> they don't realize that.
>
>     I also solved David Friedman's "Hard problem", see his book, "The
> Machinery of Freedom",  the previously-assumed difficulty or impossibility
> of providing for the defense of a fully 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.
>
>                  Jim Bell
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