Re: A Novel and Interesting Application of Cryptography

From: steverush@att.net
Date: 02/23/03 

From: steverush@att.net
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:10:34 GMT

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:27:55 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen
<mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:

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>jsavard@ecn.ab.ca wrote:
>>
>> Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@t-online.de) wrote:
>>
>> : Peace would be everywhere in
>> : the world. There would thus be no need of keeping
>> : any secrets.
>>
>> I think that even when prosperity not only eliminates the threat of war,
>> but also significantly reduces the amount of crime, people will still want
>> to keep aspects of their _personal_ lives private.
>>
>> That some level of criminal behavior is likely to persist even under
>> optimum circumstances is, I believe, something else we should realize.
>
>I see. But I was writing under an assumed scenario
>that the robots had replaced the human race. They
>would be among themselves. (There would no longer
>be 'people', the Homo sapiens, with their inborn
>sins and criminal dispositions.)

If those robots have human - eqivalent minds, they will probably
invent crimes and vices we haven't thought of.