| ▲ | jjfoooo4 3 hours ago |
| My main takeaway from this episode is that anonymity on the web is getting harder to support. There are some forums that people want to go to to talk to humans, and as AI agents get increasingly good at operating like humans, we're going to see some products turn to identity verification as a fix. Not an outcome I'm eager to see! |
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| ▲ | alrs 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998. |
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| ▲ | edoceo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with. | | |
| ▲ | Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I want that to be how things work, although recent history has not been favorable when it comes to Public Key Infrastructure as applied to individuals. Inconvenience, foot-guns, required technical expertise levels, the pain of revocation lists... | | |
| ▲ | iugtmkbdfil834 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | In a sense, it seems Accellerando got a lot more right than not ( reputation markets in this particular case ). We may be arguing over the best way to do it, but it seems that the conclusion was already drawn. | | |
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