[DoctorOetker]

Imagine we could all simply watch who how and when the double spy & daughter in Britain were possibly poisoned if so.

If they were, we can try to catch them if they are still on soil, or else publicly verifiably convince people elsewhere of what happened, and then continue with higher priorities like Grenfell Tower and how to prevent such events (where many more actually died, and never even worked for the Russians, never consented to the higher risk job of being a spy)

If it didn't happen, we can again focus on our real problems.

It would also generate unity within the community of citizens, instead of this constant contrarianism and doubt.

[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC]

> It would also generate unity within the community of citizens, instead of this constant contrarianism and doubt.

Yes, it would. Via oppression. Humanity has tried that lots of times. I doubt you would want to live in any of those societies.

[DoctorOetker]

When has humanity ever used community cameras with treshold cryptography to make a provable society?

I do not propose to eliminate critical thought, I propose to eliminate the needles diversion of baseless claim and baseless counterclaim. Exactly such that critical thought is freed up to think about other problems!

We like to proud ourselves on having a system where everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but in practice innocent people are regularly convicted and guilty people regularly declared not guilty. There exists no correct a priori stance of being harsher or less harsh on false positives vs false negatives. The only way to eliminate both is relevance: gather more faithfull evidence. I believe decentralized mass surveillance to be the way out.

By removing the need to criticize questions of fact in the domain of meat space human interactions, we free up attention and critical thought to consult our feelings (ethics) about proposals and governance of our society!

I consider this the opposite of opppresion.