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There may be technical remedies if not cures for this channel noise issue. A community which grew out of BOINC got involved with distributed ledgers and indepen
by ganzuul 5y ago
There may be technical remedies if not cures for this channel noise issue. A community which grew out of BOINC got involved with distributed ledgers and independently invented many concepts which are hyped today. - They get no attention because they are non-profit, but they stand poised to reinvent the basic infrastructure underlying peer review and to with it upend conventional systems of governance because the basic problem they are facing (as per the topic) is the same. I think it's a matter of time before that project branches or merges with more visible distributed grids.
- mistrial9 5y agolots of solid research work on distributed consensus, layered voting, and "deep democracy" existed 20 years ago, on paper. Yet we got a decade of Facebook and spy-oriented DNS tricks, for the masses. I am not certain that that technical excellence you describe means very much at all, by itself. To further adoption in the field, there are multiple and well-known steps to implementation. Do these BOINC academics want that? not clear at all .. ref: Diffusion of Innovation studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
- ganzuul 5y agoThis is more of an evolution than a design so I'm not sure how much intent will factor into what they produce. The software tools, the head-turners and the ear grabbers that are available to them constrain where they may go from here. The beauty of the distributed platform that is emerging is that each service which makes up a project like Gridcoin can be produced independently within a larger ecosystem. Systems of governance are also such services, meaning the system does not have to be set in stone from the start.