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One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
by alrs 8mo ago
One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
- edoceo 8mo agoI think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with.
- Terr_ 8mo agoI want that to be how things work, although recent history has not been favorable when it comes to Public Key Infrastructure as applied to individuals. Inconvenience, foot-guns, required technical expertise levels, the pain of revocation lists...
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoIn a sense, it seems Accellerando got a lot more right than not ( reputation markets in this particular case ). We may be arguing over the best way to do it, but it seems that the conclusion was already drawn.
- Kim_Bruning 8mo agoHow is it that no one is noticing that it's the lobsters who escaped! How prescient is that? * http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html#Lobsters http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.h...
- Ancapistani 8mo agoUgh. If this isn’t part of Crustafarianism, it should be.
- Kim_Bruning 8mo agoAgreed! So I actually poked Steinberg and Stross. Sadly Steinberg hasn't read it, and Stross denies LLMs are a thing.
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoTo be fair, it was something of a marketing master stroke to adopt claw as a symbol. Admittedly, it does make me uneasy the same way Kamala's writers dressed her up in Lisa Simpson's clothes ( episode when she is a president ), but... you have a point. We are a weird mix of pop culture memes becoming so intertwined it is hard to separate them at times.
- Ancapistani 8mo agoSomeone here recommended Accelerando about a month ago - I’m sitting in an airport now reading it. It’s… deep. Probably one of the two deepest sci-fi novels I’ve ever read, beat only by Blindsight. I’m not finished yet though, so that order could change :)
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoI read it after Prime Intellect during my AI binge. I think the initial feeling I got from it was the same as I did during first read of Snow Crash. Familiar world, and yet everything is very, very different so you feel more like an explorer than anything else.