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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      1/ micro thought: degrees and titles that come from them are a form of "Seeing like a State" legibility. I know degree-less people who I rate as far more insightful than the median PhD in the same subject area, but it takes a lot longer for me to form that judgement

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      2/ and I can introduce person X to Y and say "I trust X on topic T because he's said many ultra smart things", and Y can take that under advisement, subject to their evaluation of me as an arbiter (which also took a decent amount of time to arrive at)

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      3/ really, all of this stuff is PKI-adjacent "web of trust". Degrees are a claim by a root authority: USG / The Cathedral certifies Rutgers as X, Rutgers certifies rando as Y What we're seeing is that a huge number of degree granters x ∈ X are certifying absolute garbage as Y

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      4/ and more and more people are adding USG / The Cathedral to their own personal CRLs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list … I remember reading a white paper by Rivest (?) in the mid 90s on SUDSY, a distributed identity definition ...

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      5/ oh, wait, SDSI https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/sdsi11.html … anyway, need to work now, but ... hmmm... 🤔 ... suddenly seeing lots of parallels between collapse of trust in Cathedral and collapse of trust in a root key authority

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      6/ I've had this argument since the early 1990s, which I made on Usenet back in the day, that increased computational infrastructure will make anarchocapitalism more plausible because one big reason for states is to abstract over / mediate away high-transaction costs e.g.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      7/ the first private roads were called "turn pikes" because you had guards stationed at the ends who would open the gate / turn the gate which was covered with a row of pikes, after the fee was paid guards are expensive

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      8/ thus the State can lower costs and increase total utility by just taxing everyone and making the service free ("free"). but roads are not public goods - they are rivalrous (traffic!) and excludable (pikes!)

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

      9/ and cheap computation means that we can bring back, e.g., private roads because an RFID reader and an electronic gate is a lot cheaper than a staff of guards and manually turning the pikes aside

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          10/ so I've expected, for 30 or more years, to see an increase, in the medium or long term, on privatized infrastructure or services ...but I'm now realizing that we'll see this in certifications too I'm not saying that privatizing education is a new idea to me - I've know >>>

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          11/ that all along, and was stoked for MSFT certifications 20 or whatever years back ...but what I'm now pondering is that certifications can be more decentralized, in a general reputational sense phase 1: USG certifies via a degree phase 2: MSFT certifies via a cert phase 3:

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          12/ this is in a sense a return to the old 19th or 15th or 0th century concept of reputation, but it's reputation mediated by computation pagerank, but for skills I don't think we have that yet, even tho there are some stabs at it (LinkedIn spam of "X recommends Y as good at Z

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          13/ tangential thought: there are a lot of phenomena where we have X, then as we get richer we replace X with Y, then as we get richer yet, we go back to a modified X , X' e.g. farms -> cities -> hobby farms home schooling -> gov schools -> home schooling etc.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          14/ and I expect that web-of-trust certification is one such thing exeunt

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 6 Jul 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Shea Levy

          15/ Gresham's law - bad recommendations [ cheap signalling ] squeeze out goodhttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1280128181912158215 …

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          LinkedIn example shows a potential failure mode I'm not sure how to route around: Plenty of people, even with otherwise good judgment, are more than happy to completely lie in order to play the social niceness game. I guess institutionalizing it might help.
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        1. UcKema - house shopping 2k22‏ @uckema 6 Jul 2020
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          This for the record isn’t new: technology like this is from the 1970s (EX pass)

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