Re: Meronymity

I'll work on inviting the author of this "meronymity" paper (
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17847) to lead a discussion at W3C CCG in the
coming months.  Stay tuned.

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 8:04 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:39 AM Golda Velez <gvelez17@gmail.com> wrote:
> > um.  not to be a downer, but Quora on the non-technical side is
> absolutely full of manipulation by bad actors, imho...
>
> Wouldn't the use of VCs provide some level of assurance that the bad
> actor isn't faking their credentials? As Adrian mentioned, there can
> be reputation associated with those VCs.
>
> > the thing is its important to remember there are quite different
> incentives and less verifiability once you are in a non-technical domain,
> especially geopolitical
>
> Are you saying that there are no combination of verifiable credentials
> that could be used to separate the bots, from the bad actors, from the
> good actors with specific expertise?
>
> Another interesting aspect here is that "the bots" are, probably
> within the next decade, going to legitimately exceed the level of
> expertise of 99.9% of the population on most subjects that could be
> discussed in an online forum. I, for one, welcome our new robot troll
> overlords. :P
>
> -- manu
>
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>
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