Web of trust is a consensus problem. Equal in significance to the Byzantine generals problem. But this consensus problem concerns language. So I call it the problem of how to reach linguistic consensus.
This is the problem: how do we get a decentralized community to build our digital tools of communication without reliance on centralized authorities, like w3c committees and repo managers?
If we can solve the problem of linguistic consensus over the spoken word, we should be able to do it in the digital world too.
Solution: the tapestry protocol. The concept graph + the grapevine. An approximation of how we solve the problem in normal life, ported over into the digital realm.
Scaling Dunbar’s number up from 150 to 8 billion.
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2024-02-13 04:42:29
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