One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.

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.

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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...

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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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		How is it that no one is noticing that it's the lobsters who escaped! How prescient is that? * http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.h...