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Great article! Idena is leading the way for decentralized human protocols with more than 3660 nodes. https://idena.io/
I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?
Great article! Idena is leading the way for decentralized human protocols with more than 3660 nodes. https://idena.io/
Quickly skimming the site, it seems like Idena validates identity by having all users solve a turing test at the same time. I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?
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My friends voted on it and we decided that Sybil attacks are impossible. Nothing to worry about, please move along.
But none of my friends know any of your friends, so I ignore their votes. Admittedly that means that any sort of consensus reality breaks down online, but hey, it's 2020 and we are where we are.
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What you've got there is majoritarianism not strictly democracy. We should hope that a democracy would consider not only whether there are more in favour than against but also other factors. For example. Suppose there are two rabbits and three foxes and the question is what's for dinner? Majoritarianism suggests that the foxes can vote "Rabbit" and then eat the rabbits, all is fair. But I think we'd want our democrac…
The success of democracy is not that it allows 2 rabbits to convince 3 foxes to eat vegetables, but merely that it convinces 2 foxes to limit themselves to eating vegetables based on the votes of 3 rabbits. To achieve the result that you're hoping democracy will provide, it is perhaps better to rely on the principle of Freedom of Speech / Expression.
The most obvious cases of fox / rabbit issues are regarding GRSM rights. A majority would weakly prefer that gay people not marry (but they'd just shrug and move on if overruled), a small minority would strongly prefer that gay people not marry… and then you've got all the gay people, most of whom would very strongly prefer that gay people can marry. The weak majority who care enough to block "rabbit", but not enough to actually be upset if it happened, rule the policy – until democracy becomes indirect, anyway.
Indirect democracy should never have superior properties to direct democracy. Is there a way of fixing this?
Great article! Idena is leading the way for decentralized human protocols with more than 3660 nodes. https://idena.io/
Quickly skimming the site, it seems like Idena validates identity by having all users solve a turing test at the same time. I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?
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Quickly skimming the site, it seems like Idena validates identity by having all users solve a turing test at the same time. I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?
This, plus who knows how long we can rely on the Turing test.