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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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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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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There needs to be someone with skin in the game to push back against watering down. Whether that is a human, an institution, or sth else, some intelligent agent needs to care.
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This dovetails with the idea
@ScottAdamsSays has been floating about a sort of life skills / personal skill stack degree/certificate. Basically a way to show employers that you have a foundational skill set that will allow you to learn whatever specific field you choose.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is the heart of apprenticeship, isn't it? You study under a master who certifies you as a certain level of quality (apprentice). You travel and acquire extra signatures (journeyman). Eventually, you're well known enough that people will trust your recommendations (master).
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... suddenly seeing lots of parallels between collapse of trust in Cathedral and collapse of trust in a root key authority