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The world needs a global reputation system. This needs to keep track of every commitment, every promises. It should become important enough that people complet
by miguelrochefort 10y ago
The world needs a global reputation system.
This needs to keep track of every commitment, every promises. It should become important enough that people completely stop lying. After a while, interesting things will happen.
You will be able to let people use your car, use your house, use your tools, use your bathroom, use your money, without having to watch them.
The workforce will become completely liquid, as you will be able to hire people without having to test them. If they're not fit for the job, they will quit on their own.
Sadly, those privacy enthusiasts are making everything they can to prevent that from happening.
- jtr1 10y agoAh yes, our old friend the panopticon. If human beings are watched thoroughly enough, eventually they will internalize the gaze and watch themselves. The perfection of the human condition! What ever happened to those? ;)
- CPLX 10y agoWe do, it's called the legal system. It's just expensive and slow. What the author is describing is a system of frictionless very low cost trust, which is a more challenging goal.
- new299 10y agoThat sounds undesirable, unworkable, and easily open to exploitation. Takes all sorts though... Would be interesting to read a worked out example of how such a system might operate.
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- tomjen3 10y agoIn that case identity theft will just go up - plus people who are not trustworthy will now have absolutely nothing stopping them from being criminals, since nobody is going to trust them anyway. It also doesn't deal with the background trust level in society - which is what you consider when you decide whether you should lock your door or not.
- kstenerud 10y agoI do hope this is facetious. It's people like this who have built every utopia this Earth has ever seen, and we know the consequences of those.