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I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it. If your partner ca

I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it. If your partner can prove you consented at 1 am, it doesn't mean you stopped consenting 30 seconds later. This is a total non-solution for a non-problem. If you want a "paper trail" have your partner text you "I want to have sex with you right now" before removing undergarments.

greensoap 9y ago
Still doesn't remove the ambiguity of whether the consent is real consent. Look at the Louis CK cases, those women "consented" but only because they felt unable not to consent.
- stcredzero 9y ago
  So in cases like the Louis CK and Harvey Weinstein scenarios, the women would take out their smartphone and inform the other party to look at the app?
- valuearb 9y ago
  Yea, neither blockchain or texting or verbal consent can solve that problem.
darepublic 9y ago
Exactly. I think as a society we are at a stage where we are trying to guarantee justice without the need for discretion and wisdom. And it's simply not going to work. I mean, maybe when we have nanotechnology embedded in our brains recording our every action. May as well through free will out the window while we're at it -- no autonomy = no crime.
Nuzzerino 9y ago
> I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it. The Internet and World Wide Web has been filled with spam and junk since the beginning. It even had its naysayers, like this one: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-buy-books-newspapers-straight-intenet-uh/ https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-b... > "What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading." Sounds a lot like the large number of useless blockchain-based projects these days. The web also had a fundraising bubble too, a few years after it came about.

greensoap 9y ago

Still doesn't remove the ambiguity of whether the consent is real consent. Look at the Louis CK cases, those women "consented" but only because they felt unable not to consent.

stcredzero 9y ago
So in cases like the Louis CK and Harvey Weinstein scenarios, the women would take out their smartphone and inform the other party to look at the app?
valuearb 9y ago
Yea, neither blockchain or texting or verbal consent can solve that problem.

darepublic 9y ago

Exactly. I think as a society we are at a stage where we are trying to guarantee justice without the need for discretion and wisdom. And it's simply not going to work. I mean, maybe when we have nanotechnology embedded in our brains recording our every action. May as well through free will out the window while we're at it -- no autonomy = no crime.

Nuzzerino 9y ago

> I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it. The Internet and World Wide Web has been filled with spam and junk since the beginning. It even had its naysayers, like this one: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-buy-books-newspapers-straight-intenet-uh/ https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-b... > "What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading." Sounds a lot like the large number of useless blockchain-based projects these days. The web also had a fundraising bubble too, a few years after it came about.