Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
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Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
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Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#2This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months.
Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read all these words on the page yet I have absolutely no comprehension of what was said. What on Earth was written on the “formalising humans on the blockchain” section for example? There sure are a lot of words, but nothing actually got said.
What, exactly do they want to do with a blockchain and why? It’s a simple question.
Oh, they have some cryptocurrency token they want to sell. Gotcha.
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#3This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months. Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read al…
Yep I closed it immediately. And this is someone who actually reads this stuff.
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#4This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months. Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read al…
Yep I closed it immediately. And this is someone who actually reads this stuff.
The really baffling thing is how this made it to the front page of HN.
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#5This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months. Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read al…
reminds me of this (no disrespect to the owners) : http://www.demiurge.technology/culture
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#6This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months. Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read al…
Perhaps the text was generated by AI? :)
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#7> What, exactly do they want to do with a blockchain and why?
Here’s my take: they want to enable voting online with some level of trust. One major problem with online voting is ensuring each voter only votes once. In traditional voting (e.g. for a political office) the government is the one ensuring each eligible voter only votes once. Since the point of this is to “decentralize” voting, they need a complicated cryptographic approach to stand in for the governments role in ensuring one person one vote instead.
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#8I think most of what they say is fear mongering and totally irrelevant. For example, the image that says "the biggest threat to democracy: these people never existed" and showing the AI generated faces. How is that the biggest threat to democracy? Aren't things like the two party system, a corrupt media that pushes political agendas instead of reporting objectively, social media polarizing people with echo chambers and feedback loops which create social fires over simple things, etc more of a threat to democracy than spoofed AI people walking into a voting booth? I understand that they would like to push their platform as a saving grace, but it seems like yet another crypto scheme that is trying out the political angle.
Re: Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
#9This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months. Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read al…
Perhaps the text was generated by AI? :)
AI on the blockchain.