I just remembered about this article on Kuro5hin about reputation. “Pondering Digital Reputations”.
Worth a read. Drifts on and off the topic of completely digital reputations as I’ve found everything does. When it comes down to quantifying reputation it becomes quite dry. Which is fortunate of unfortunate depending on ones outlook. Mostly this dryness is due to the dimensionality reduction that goes on when one converts from a fuzzy real world brain based system to a limited exact digital system. The price you pay for switching from a system based on millions of years of evolution to one based on less than 100 years of rational research.
I wonder if there is some kind of proportionality between what evolution can achieve and human research can discover.
