Because it's by far the dominant strategy for distributed trust-ranking systems out there, with decades of research around it. Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

And I don't think anyone actually trusts any major actor to verify anything, so a fully centralized system is likely out. Otherwise people would be hype about WorldCoin, instead of recognizing it for the stupendously malicious grift that it is.

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perching_aix 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

Curse of knowledge much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

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Groxx 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Only if you're one of today's 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

	▲	perching_aix 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, and what I'm saying is that I think they pretty blatantly were.