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Comment by lsb

1 year ago

This is an example of the Trust On First Use policy, like when you SSH to a machine whose cert you don't have and you are invited to trust it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use

And the entire "Hang up, look up, call back" is just a trapdoor firewall. From a 10,000-foot perspective, humans and computers are the same, they're just nodes that communicate information.

  • Man I think about this all the time. We have robots calling humans and robots answering calls to verify the other end isn't a robot. We just need to connect the dots and have the robots talk to the robots and collate the important bits for the humans. English becomes a fuzzy "API" for the robots to communicate with each other. I get weirded out when I think about it.