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What do you mean?
by everfree 3y ago
What do you mean?
- bigyikes 3y agoUpvotes and downvotes on Hacker News. It’s a joke with some truth.
- everfree 3y agoOh. That's an uninteresting way to "back up" a statement imo. Crowd wisdom is often wrong. "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
- bee_rider 3y agoJust a note, the person you’ve responded to is different from the person who made the “joke,” (if that is the right interpretation. I don’t really get the joke, fwiw). It doesn’t really make sense anyway; if the joke is that the comment is “backed” by the fact that HN users are upvoting it—comment scores aren’t visible to people other than the posters, right? So all we know is that it wasn’t smote into the hidden state.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI agree. Voting systems are just generically dumb for any sort of truth consensus.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoIt's confusing because we went from "decentralized" meaning "an inverted hierarchy" to "decentralized" meaning "a hierarchy seen from the other direction".
- hanniabu 3y agoCan you expand on that? What do you mean by from the other direction?
- thomastjeffery 3y agoBanking is a centralized model. Participantation in banking can be said to be, from the perspective of the participant, decentralized. The participant's perspective on the hierarchy is inverted, but the model itself is unchanged. Etherium is a decentralized model. Its model is an actually inverted hierarchy.