This is one of the things that motivates me to work on decentralized reputation and web of trust: it will one day accelerate the speed of scientific research.

Think about all the time, money, & brain power co-opted by big pharma to convince us to believe stuff that simply isn’t true. WoT will help us build filters and tools to make us better able to distinguish truth from propaganda. Not just medicine: math, physics, anything. How many geniuses exist, writing revolutionary ideas and theorems in isolation, never discovered by the world?

WoT is literally life or death. Especially for anyone alive today, those of us who may very well die of old age 5 minutes before anti-aging technology becomes available … ☠️ 😂