> > What you want is a window opening up with rich > live information: shop opening hours perhaps, but > possibly scandals, bankruptcy, or phenomenal growth stories! > A map of the world showing where the company is located. > Local news over there perhaps. > If a sufficiently rich tapestry of contextual data was available, why would you inflict it on a human? I would much rather have my own due dilligence robot that hid out of sight except to warn me when something smelled like trouble. Algorithmic due dilligence is a kind of spam detection problem (inverse recommendation), it seems like it might yield to a combination of transfered knowledge from the community plus personalised refinements. If this community and I can agree on what we are trying to avoid, then we can collaborate on avoiding it by sharing examples of bad. How to trust the consensus of the community? That's an identity assurance problem, which reduces to an assessment of the accumulated evidence of participation in society. If only I had a rich tapestry of... Ah-Ha!. Cross-referencing identity fiats (like business registers etc.) may just be a bootstrapping exercise until systems accumulate enough verifiable evidence of economic activity that's densely linked to themselves. Chris Gough -- --- The content of this email and attachments are considered confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email and any copies, and notify the sender immediately. The information in this email must only be used, reproduced, copied, or disclosed for the purposes for which it was supplied.
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