From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:14:38 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: 5th protect password?
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                       SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

At 07:58 AM 4/23/96 -0700, James Donald wrote:

>Yeah:  fifty thousand dollars.  
>Not that it makes the slightest difference.
>
>On the extropians list a number of very large bets were made and 
>accepted, but nobody ever paid up. (Or very few -- I know of no
>cases.)

As much as I like the Extropians, personally, they haven't
got a clue how to implement practical social systems.  It
is trivial to set up a wagering system that works--and you
don't need all the "polycentric" blah blah.

>Now if Unicorn had proposed a bet for one hundred dollars, then
>I would sit up and take notice.  A hundred dollars is real money.  
>Fifty thousand dollars is hot air...

a)  I proposed that a bet of $100 which Jim Bell ignored.
    That should have made you sit up and take notice.
b)  Unicorn has the 50Gs and I'm confident he would have 
    paid up if necessary.

>...  Anybody who was serious about paying
>would not make such ridiculous bets.

This is a non-sequitor.  Anyone serious about winning
WOULD make such a bet.  Do you really think that a legal
scholar as good as Unicorn would just shoot from the hip
without knowing he had it in the bag?


 S a n d y

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