From 8c1b48b9c6fa48e2eaf0cca341b69769647b8e26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Gasquez Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:58:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?docs:=20=F0=9F=93=9D=20Refine=20decentralizatio?= =?UTF-8?q?n,=20future=20tech,=20and=20political=20system=20perspectives?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- Decentralized Protocols.md | 3 +-- Future.md | 2 +- Politics.md | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Decentralized Protocols.md b/Decentralized Protocols.md index 23a3ab0..4467cc0 100644 --- a/Decentralized Protocols.md +++ b/Decentralized Protocols.md @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ - When building a technology, consider: [does this centralize or decentralize power?](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/01/18/technology-without-industry.html) - Many decentralized protocols are trying to build next generation common digital infrastructure. - Unfortunately,[nearly every crypto project realized that they could capture value (make a lot of money) with innovative tokenomics that looked a lot like Ponzis, or at least borderline securities fraud](https://andrewconner.com/common-digital-infrastructure/). -- Credible neutrality is the principle that a system or protocol should be demonstrably fair and impartial to all participants, with no hidden biases or privileged interests. -- +- Credible neutrality is the principle that a system or protocol should be demonstrably fair and impartial to all participants (open source and publicly verifiable execution), with no hidden biases or privileged interests. ## Types of Decentralization diff --git a/Future.md b/Future.md index 0a55137..9ec01d4 100644 --- a/Future.md +++ b/Future.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ History teaches us that in 100 years from now [[Openness|some of the assumptions - CRDTs - WASM. Specially Pyodide. - Distributed / decentralized data storage systems. -- Homomorphic Encryption +- Multi-party computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), trusted execution environments (TEEs), ... - Prolly/Merkle Trees - Differential/Timely Dataflow - Zero-Knowledge Proofs diff --git a/Politics.md b/Politics.md index 688e941..afb708c 100644 --- a/Politics.md +++ b/Politics.md @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ - Not all actions are equal. Some actions just validate your identify (arguing with someone online) and others don't seem right but make large differences (negotiating farm animals welfare). - We usually vote to whoever gives us simple (and probably wrong) solutions. - Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others — Winston Churchill [_probably quoting someone else_](https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government). To reach more people, arguments and topics need to be simplified to the maximum, losing trade-offs and nuance. + - Some other criticisms are; average voters are not sophisticated, because each voter only has a small chance of affecting the outcome, few voters put high-quality thought into their decisions, and you often get either low participation (making the system easy to attack) or de-facto centralization because everyone just defaults to trusting and copying the views of some influencer. - Democracy is not there to create optimal outcomes, it's there to prevent really really bad outcomes. - Any social structure decays over time, including political systems, nonprofits, religions, ... This is a social problem, that needs social solutions. - Groups that form around a goal can work better or worse, depending on how well the goal can be verified by the group. If you're forming a group based on [what percentage of your income are you willing to devote to altruism](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/), that's a really easy thing to monitor.