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Replying to Avatar Daniel Wigton

No, and you don't actually want this. Trust is based on knowing who you are and what you are about. I don't have to know who you are in real life, just that over time I have come to trust your account along certain lines.

If algorithmic trust doesn't match the trust in people's heads then the system is broken and will either be abused or not be trusted.

Say a con man gains widespread trust as an expert on investment. Then using the trust gained convinces a bunch of people to invest their money in a scam. This is of course exactly where the term con or confidence man came from.

In a good confidence scam the targets don't realize the con man is in on it. He passes of the trust he earned to a 3rd party who does all the burning of bridges. Then he can pretend that he was taken advantage of as well. But eventually the pattern will catch up to him and he will at the very least lose trust.

If you were to make a method by which trust could be transferred anonymously, even weakly, then scamming would be super easy with no consequences.

The fallout would be that people simply no longer trust the entire system.

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YODL 2mo ago

I feel the need to defend my initial idea despite your convincing argument against, I'm simply dug in after post. I shall return

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