A tangent, but maybe an interesting one?

Hi everyone,

I just wrote an article about psychometrics — the stuff Cambridge 
Analytica used — and how it might interact with decentralized ID.

    See:
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-tao-innovation/201806/the-psychometrics-decentralization

I'm wondering if there might be some way to harden the DID system 
against manipulative psychometrics. I mean, beyond non-correlation. In 
the article, I proposed a fanciful intelligent assistant app, like a 
Siri for the forces of good, that knows your psychometric type, and 
whenever something looked manipulative in an ad or in your Facebook 
feed, it could check to see the reputation of the poster and warn you.

However, this would require a framework for reputation. Instead, I'm 
thinking there may be something easier and simpler.

For example, instead of requiring some proof of work – via Equihash - to 
post something, how about using Equihash to make it through your spam 
filter? Or better yet, send a few cents to a charitable cause, to make 
it into your feed, ad queue, inbox.

You have any ideas?

Moses

PS, if you could retweet these articles, I'd appreciate it:

  * https://twitter.com/mosesma/status/1007328677892272128
  * https://twitter.com/mosesma/status/1007289955486322688