Quoting Henry Story (2021-05-19 09:55:26) > Synchronised clocks are an indeed important part in all read-write web > protocols for HTTP from WebDav, Atom to LDP. > So that is already how the RWW works. > > The danger of thinking in terms of Operating Systems is that it leads > you to the dreams of global consensus. > But as we see with bitcoin, the selection of the next state of the > bitcoin state machine, is extremely costly in energy. As a result over > 50% of bitcoin mining is now going on in China, and is very far from > the decentralised dream people had 10 years ago. > > Furthermore not every application lends itself well to such a state > machine, It can work for purely mathematically based systems like > currencies where the whole state can be verified by everyone, but it > gets a lot more complicated for empirical statements, where semantics > becomes important. I wrote some thoughts on that up here: > > https://medium.com/cybersoton/identity-as-a-graph-or-a-chain-f15940beec81 > > The blockchain is distributed but not decentralised: it requires one > view of the truth. > > In democracies we need to take into account the multi-perspectival > nature of reality. > There may be one truth - as an ideal - but that can only be attained > by discussions among incompatible, often contradictory views of > reality. That is why a multi-agent system is the right place to start > thinking about these things. Local consensus first, global consensus > later, perhaps and only if needed. Yes! Even if Safenet is not the solution, their problem description might be helpful: https://safenetwork.tech/faq/#what-is-close-group-consensus - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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