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Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics)
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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- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics), (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:37 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:45 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Wild west (was Guilds & Politics),
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 23:55 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging,
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Mon 05 Jan 1998, 18:10 GMT
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