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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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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... suddenly seeing lots of parallels between collapse of trust in Cathedral and collapse of trust in a root key authority