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If chains of trust could be widely and rigorously established online, most (maybe all?) of the big problems we have today would be gone.


It would be a good thing. If anyone wants to apply to YC with that kind of idea, we'd be into it.


I actually thought long and hard the other day about how such a system might be implemented, and came up with a few interesting ideas. Perhaps this encouragement will make me apply!

EDIT: I even wrote about it a long time ago, when I still updated my blog with any semblance of regularity. Weebly seems to be down for approximately the millionth time in the last month or so, though. I'll post the article if Weebly gets righted within the edit window.



I had thought facebook would be the beginning of this, but it seems to be a flash in the pan, and too locked in to really be effective.


That would indicate that people would have to become widely trustworthy and rigorous.




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