@jaz @jerry @Crell I *so* want to come up with an "algebra...

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I *so* want to come up with an "algebra of trust", where we can say "I trust entity X, but only to post", and "I trust entity Y, and anybody they trust too", and let the computer figure out each individual "do I trust A to do B?".

I haven't formalized it at all, and there's a risk of being computationally expensive, and someone would have to do the specialization for Mastodon, but I'd love to see it.

Like 1 August at 15:34 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Larry Garfield

@jztusk @jaz @jerry You're trying to solve a human problem with math. That is doomed to failure, no matter what the crypto-bros keep selling.

All human systems require human maintenance and decision making. Assisted, maybe, but never, ever think you can replace human decision making about human activities.

1 August at 15:37 | Open on phpc.social

maybenot

@Crell @jztusk @jaz @jerry

one could make the argument that this would be a machine only enforcing the decisions made by a human, like a very advanced filter

1 August at 15:45 | Open on mstdn.social

jz.tusk

@Crell @jaz @jerry

The humans set the base rules.

Have you ever unwrapped the certificate chain for an HTTPS-transmitted web page? We're doing stuff like this right now, on massive web scale

1 August at 15:47 | Open on mastodon.social