Comment by feoren
15 days ago
Thank you for the good discussion. I think we share a lot of the same vision. I'm more pessimistic than you about inherent limitations in crypto (and more optimistic that there's still room for improvement in fiat), but I hope you're right that the limitations of current crypto can be overcome. Your vision sounds a lot like an idea I've had for a more "open-source government" where laws are drafted as series of commits by experts in that topic, and debate happens over individual merge requests, etc. I don't know how crypto is supposed to help with that but maybe there are things I'm just not seeing. I hope there's a way to get the best of both systems.
Thanks to you also. I hope we see your open source government thing happen.
I'm not sure how you're going to derive consensus about which experts are trusted in which topics, or how you're going to prove to the people that this commit, and not that one, is their chosen one. Not without using crypto in some way.
I don't think you can do something as important as that behind closed doors on AWS and have the people take you at your word that somebody with root access didn't have their finger on the scale--they're going to want to see proofs, to verify the outcomes on their own hardware--but I'd love to live in a world that actually is that trusting.