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0 pointsBarbing2mo ago0 comments

Very interesting, I've thought in a completely different direction, towards human verification. "IRL KYC for friends" or something

I always hit problems with it though. Let's say I can find someone I trust. Maybe it's me. Say I only enter online spaces, at least with intent of discussion, with those I've met in real life. Well, at some point, someone I've met face to face would be incentivized to maybe share a link to their friend's concert. Perhaps there's a free guest list spot in it for them if the show sells out. Or maybe it's all gravy, but eventually:

I want to expand the network we've created together, and it means trusting someone else to bring in people to the online space I've never met in real life. This could again be fine for a long time, but won't someone eventually be incentivized (especially if this practice were common) to promote this supplement, promote that politician...?

(recognize astroturfing is different from the impending slop tsunami but both feel to be in the same stadium)

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intended2mo ago· 2 in thread

Proof of human is the natural first stop.

Your solution shares its essence with a club, a WhatsApp group or interest group.

It works, but you will still be at the mercy of the large communities and economies of thought that the members are a part of.

That is the broader environment you are a part of.

Everyone from FAANG firms, governments to game companies struggle to identify real people from bots.

If your platform is global, then you have to contend with users from different legal regimes and jurisdictions.

The issue is that verification is logistically expensive, ends up infringing on rights, legally complex and on top of all that - error prone.

To top it off - If proof of life ends up gatekeeping any form of value, you will set up incentives to break verification.

BarbingOP2mo ago

Darn it, pretty convincing. Thanks. Been wanting to talk about the frustrating, obvious problems with my naïve solution.

Has anyone done a decent job implementing those rule-based collections that you’ve seen already?

intended2mo ago

Not that I know of, I only managed to get this far in my analysis. I have a protocol that might work, but theres a huge gaping hole in the protocol.

I thought about your position again, and there is a large amount of merit to creating human to human connections, which is a significant component of your push.

As long as you don't want to "scale", or are trying to build it over the net, and do it in person, it avoids the issues of proof of life.

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