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On a general plane why do we even care to identify a (non) person?

We should care whether the peer has some "skin in the game". For example a Bitcoin wallet with some Satoshis locked in a multi-signature smart contract would probably insure that. This approach would automatically ensure a free and robust digital identity and secure communication via secret/public key of that wallet.

If some rules need to be imposed - they could be managed through the smart contract plus some type of an oracle - here I second your thought. Though in this approach (with bitcoin wallet as identity) it is easy to fund the proper process in a transparent and balanced way because the funds are there already.


Also why math is never an experiment apart from geometry? For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses. The small difference between resulting numbers in class and yet their closeness to 1/2 should make this day a success for a teacher.


> For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses

This is a really common teaching activity for the topic.

It's not that maths is 'never an experiment', but that people make uninformed assumptions about what maths education involves.


If the guy has a disorder it is certainly not a Deficit of Attention. He's just not interested in what does not interest him. Maybe his lifestyle is not healthy, but not for the lack of attention, maybe in fact too much of it. But who's to know better?


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