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If the model assumes benevolence how can it possibly be viable long-term?
by idiotsecant 6y ago
If the model assumes benevolence how can it possibly be viable long-term?
- henearkr 6y agoLike that: malevolent actors are banned as soon as detected.
- idiotsecant 6y agoWhat do you suppose is the ratio of undetected bad actors / detected bad actors? If it is anything other than zero I think the original point holds.
- RangerNS 6y agoMost everything boils down to trust at some point. That human society exists is proof that people are, or act, mostly, "good", over the long term.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> That human society exists is proof that people are, or act, mostly, "good", over the long term. That's very true. It's worth noting that various legal and security tools deployed by the society help us understand what are the real limits to "mostly". So for example, the cryptocurrency crowd is very misguided in their pursuit of replacing trust with math - trust is the trick, the big performance hack, that allowed us to form functioning societies without burning ridiculous amounts of energy to achieve consensus. On the other hand, projects like Linux kernel, which play a core role in modern economy, cannot rely on assumption of benevolence alone - incentives for malicious parties to try and mess with them are too great to ignore.