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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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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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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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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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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14/ and I expect that web-of-trust certification is one such thing exeunt
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15/ Gresham's law - bad recommendations [ cheap signalling ] squeeze out goodhttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1280128181912158215 …
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This for the record isn’t new: technology like this is from the 1970s (EX pass)
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... suddenly seeing lots of parallels between collapse of trust in Cathedral and collapse of trust in a root key authority