| ▲ | stackghost 3 hours ago |
| I am actively building non-magical human verification technology that doesn't require you uploading your retinal scans or ID to billionaires or incompetent outsourcing firms. |
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| ▲ | lrvick 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We already have it and we use it to validate the trusted human maintainer involvement behind the linux packages that power the entire internet: PGP Web Of Trust. Still works as designed and I still go to keysigning parties in person. |
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| ▲ | sebastiennight an hour ago | parent [-] | | Say a regular human wanted to join and prove their humanhood status (expanding the web of trust). How would they go about that? What is the theoretical ceiling on the rate of expansion of this implementation? |
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| ▲ | lynx97 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Great! Lets do the CAPTCHA-test: Will I, as a 100% blind user, be able to complete your process? |
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| ▲ | stackghost 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think so? Can you use a smartphone? edit: can't reply, the rate-limiting is such an awful UX | | |
| ▲ | lrvick 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not parent poster but I am a maintainer of software powering significant portions of the internet and prove my humanity with a 16 year old PGP key with thousands of transitive trust signatures formed through mostly in-person meetings, using IETF standards and keychain smartcards, as is the case for everyone I work with. But, I do not have an Android or iOS device as I do not use proprietary software, so a smartphone based solution would not work for me. Why re-invent the wheel? Invest in making PGP easier and keep the decades of trust building going anchoring humans to a web of trust that long predates human-impersonation-capable AI. |
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| ▲ | anonym29 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The technical implementation is the easy part. The hard part is achieving mass voluntary cooperation under adverse incentive schemes. |
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| ▲ | stackghost 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is true, but I think there is a sizable (and growing) appetite for human-only spaces. |
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| ▲ | tlonny 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| how does it work? |
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