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Autonomous Reputation System

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Re: Autonomous Reputation System

#23
Another technocrat who wants to improve human life by literally de-humanizing it. Hey let’s upload and outsource how we feel about each other!

It never, ever works.

It reminds me of the trope of monsters that ravenously pursue human flesh in order to feel human, and fail fail fail (see Sandman’s Corinthian for the latest incarnation of that).

Reputation is a complex social phenomenon. What this post recommends is some sort of online reputation-related game that over time everyone would be forced to play. No thank you.

Re: Autonomous Reputation System

#24

This sounds ripe for abuse. - who assignes IDs to each actor - who removes stolen actor IDs - even with the anti-abuse provisions for bad actors, what is stopping me from making a botnet to artificially increasing my reputation? - this system, no matter how decentralised, and "hands off" will inevitably be corrupted under the guise of good will and justice. - who is stopping people from downvoting my reputation if it…

Wrote this over lunch and made a typo.

"...downvoting my opinion."

Re: Autonomous Reputation System

#25

Another technocrat who wants to improve human life by literally de-humanizing it. Hey let’s upload and outsource how we feel about each other! It never, ever works. It reminds me of the trope of monsters that ravenously pursue human flesh in order to feel human, and fail fail fail (see Sandman’s Corinthian for the latest incarnation of that). Reputation is a complex social phenomenon. What this post recommends is som…

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