Comment by edoceo
9 days ago
I think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with.
9 days ago
I think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with.
I 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...
In 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.
How 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.h...
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Someone 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 :)
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