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by dataviz1000 76 days ago
This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.
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Did you forget about Blade Runner?
... Did you ...?
That might be okay. We'd lose a lot, obviously, but if you could 100% trust that the person you met at a coffee shop is real, and you could 99% trust that the person they met the day before is real, and you could 98% trust the person that person met is real, you've got three degrees of Kevin Bacon.
But can you trust that the things they say aren't just laundered AI blogspam?
Well I trust that the things my friends say aren't laundered AI blogspam. And if they trust the things their friends say, I can likely trust that too.
Until the humanoid robots gain the ability to process caffeine, then we’re all hosed.
is anyone using keybase any more? i put it on my website and socials to do just that but it doesn’t seem to have stuck around.
It's not really the right kind of authentication. A bot can use keybase too.