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From: JC Lawrence <claw@under.Eng.Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 15:45:30 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:41:42 PST8PDT
Travis S Casey<efindel@io.com> wrote:
> A thought I have yet to see anybody raise about the logging/"time
> travel" scenario: muds are, among other things, virtual worlds in
> which we can see how people might interact under different sets of
> laws than those which prevail in reality. This mud is creating a
> world in which postcognition, possibly even remote postcognition, is
> possible.
Exactly! Bravo! This was actually an intention of mine that I never
figure out a decent way to phrase. The thread with Ola beating on
control and ownership of data has been circling this point without
ever touching it.
> In such a world, there is no assurance of perfect
> privacy. *There is no other way in which such a world can be
> modeled except through logging of the type described.*
Bingo.
The entire world is in the chair and under the spot lights, bot nobody
can control who is watching what chair when.
> It would be
> interesting to see how people would act if they knew that all their
> actions were subject to review -- and how better to simulate such an
> environment than to actually implement it?
Quite.
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