Carma, and Interview Meme Continued

I want Carma to exist

I have this idea, that we should build in enough tech into vehicles, so the driver can yell: "argh, points off for " *glares in direction of idiot car* "them!" whenever they see someone doing something stupid on the roads. Then, it's a SMOP to transmit recent video of that vehicle to central DB... Cop enough of these downchecks from different people, and your license to drive gets revoked. You could even have, "oo, points up for " *looks in direction of vehicle doing nice things like let letting people in* "them", too.

Carma, basically. :-) Rewards for good Carma, Penalties for bad Carma... Even better, if your Carma goes negative, you get demoted to smaller and smaller vehicle classes (all the way down to pedestrian only), and as your Carma goes positive, you get allowed to be promoted to larger vehicle classes.

So, you start out being allowed to drive a "small car", or maybe even only a small motorcycle, and only once you collect lots of positive Carma do you get "promoted" to larger vehicles, bigger motorcyles, etc.

It'd be neat. :-) The tech's not quite there yet, but give it a decade or so, and I think we'll have enough device convergence to be able to do it.

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Interview of thorfinn by ianhess

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Questions by Ian Hess:

1. What qualities in a martial art student would cause you to cease teaching them?
2. Would you support legalized dueling, provided that both participants signed a standardized boilerplate waiver/contract as to the terms and outcome?
3. Is an armed (or perhaps martially skilled) society indeed a polite society?
4. What sort of music are you into these days?
5. I tend to rate parties I goto by a debauchery scale, with 1 being a church mixer with chaperones, and 10 being a good weekend in ancient Rome. What debauchery rating, or range of, do you prefer your partying to be within?

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