Humans have been applying social scores for 200,000 years, I don't think that will change anytime soon
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Yah, so letās let some developer give us a number on a screen so we donāt have to think for ourselves anymore. Great idea.
That can be said of lots of tools invented by humans. Web of trust is another tool that can surface existing information in compressed form. It does not mandate any numbers on a screen, that is one implementation choice