Philip Sheldrake

Sep 6

Trust Network: let’s bring our human trust connections into the digital age

Paul Sabin

I'd love to jump on a call to discuss this space Paul. Perhaps via the Neighbourhoods project?

I'd love to jump on a call to discuss this space Paul. Perhaps via the Neighbourhoods project? I cannot share your enthusiasm if only because I think this is even harder than it appears, and it appears hard enough! Programmatic quantification of reputation (including trustworthiness) is an inevitable evil due…

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Jul 14

Digital identity is not human identity, and that matters

If your work involves architecting or designing or developing or policymaking for the interweave of people and digital technologies, or researching the consequences, may I invite you to check out my new essay: Human identity — the number one challenge in computer science. Wonderfully, I’ve been helped by thirteen reviewers…

Digital Identity

3 min read

Apr 13

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand blockchain and Decentralized Digital Identity: it just…

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Enrique Dans

You omit to provide your conceptual definition of identity.

You omit to provide your conceptual definition of identity. It is critical to do so to begin to understand the boundaries within which your hopes for SSI might play out if we're very careful, and by corrolary those aspects of the human condition and community without for which it might be / will be deeply harmful.

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You omit to provide your conceptual definition of identity.

It is critical to do so to begin to understand the boundaries within which your hopes for SSI might play out if we're very careful, and by corrolary those aspects of the human condition and community without for which it might be / will be deeply harmful.

Mar 28

We need to talk about the social graph

First published to the AKASHA blog. Who doesn’t love a good concept?! Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before…

Deso

11 min read

Oct 13, 2021

Imagine being able to port your Uber or Lyft rating and comments into your new Couchsurfing account — The cultural premises of these groups are different, but if a trusted Couchsurfing node says “hey, that info can still help us get to know a person faster”, then you don’t have to start from scratch building a reputation on Couchsurfing.

Introducing Neighbourhoods

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Emaline Friedman

Uber and Couchsurfing are different contexts.

Uber and Couchsurfing are different contexts. Reputation "porting" between contexts inevitably leads, I think, to non-contextual reputation. And non-contextual reputation is an unmitigated evil. What am I missing?

1 min read

Jul 10, 2021

The past, present, and possible future of software architecture

First published to my blog. It is important to understand the ways in which software may be conjured into the world for the simple reason that software and information technologies more generally have immense social and economic impact. The genesis of such process has been called software architecture, and there…

Cooperation

9 min read

The past, present, and possible future of software architecture

Apr 16, 2021

Two Concepts of Liberty and Infinite Permutations of Moderating

First published to the Ethereum World blog. Our first blog post on the myths and challenges of social network moderating and the direction we’re heading in for decentralized social networking elicited some agreeable feedback but also this response: “I don’t agree with your views about moderation. …

Ethereum World

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Two Concepts of Liberty and Infinite Permutations of Moderating

Apr 14, 2021

Anonymity is not the problem here — disposability is.

Anonymity Is Not The Problem

Podium

Disposability is one way to describe a persona fading with irrelevance.

Disposability is one way to describe a persona fading with irrelevance. For example, the personae I may have lived through as a teenager are entirely redundant to me in my 40s.

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Disposability is one way to describe a persona fading with irrelevance. For example, the personae I may have lived through as a teenager are entirely redundant to me in my 40s.

Mar 8, 2021

Towards a shared understanding of ‘digital identity’ — reflecting on conversations with Doc Searls and Drummond Reed

First published to the generative identity website. No two people can share an exact understanding of anything deep and meaningful simply because we each have different contexts. Conversation relies upon and can never wholly substitute for context. …

Digital Identity

20 min read

Feb 10, 2021

Community moderating — bringing our best

Originally posted to the Ethereum World blog. In light of the Trump ban, far right hate speech, and the plainly weird QAnon conspiracy theories, the world’s attention is increasingly focused on the moderation of and by social media platforms. Our work at AKASHA is founded on the belief that humans…

Moderation

9 min read

Community moderating — bringing our best