December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation
by Marcel Popescu 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

From: "Sunder" <sunder(a)sunder.net> > Say for instance Mr. Measels manages to accumulate quite a large sum of > positive repcap, if he spews a bunch of the lame ass CJ knockoff messages, > I suspect most people would adjust their cached repcap's of him pretty > quickly - At least I would. (CJ did/does write kooky messages, but at > least they're funny...) I think this is pretty much known behavior: reputation is more easily lost than gained ("one angry customer tells other nine" and so on). Mark

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Emergency!
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Emergence - the tendency of systems to evolve and self-organise - is the driving theme of an international digital-art conference in Melbourne this week. Second Iteration, at Monash University, will explore the role of artificial intelligence, Darwin's theory of evolution and complex systems in modern art and music. In an ongoing cypherpunks emergency,so called libertarians have been exposed as right wing,conservative and corporate shills that hijacked this list in a low pathetic attempt to divert and dam the exploding cryptoanarchist revolution. Such 'names' as declan,tim and ,jamesd stand exposed.They are wreckers of the revolution.Damn them to hell.

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Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Response to...This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad judgment about which articles are worth reading"--and you can find them by reviewing some articles yourself and measuring similarity of answers. Etc,etc. The last 2 aussi elections have featured something called 'the worm'.Its a dial that the studio audience control at the main debates.Individually control and all results show as a wavey line(the worm) on TV for the masses.A very strong plunge in the worm when talk turned to the new VAT tax,the GST. Some biometric feedback on the political reputation of politicians. The fact barely 50% bother voting in the US and UK being another.Rating articles is possible at sydney IMC.Often abused IMO.

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Re: Reputation of a Reputation,
by mattd 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

"...Someone once remarked that the most unimaginitive, laziest Harvard graduate students at the bottom of their class tend to end up at the IMF and UN. Sort of sinkholes of mediocrity. Oh well! ~Faustine." Luckily we now have 'open source' AP to take out the ones that get to be president.Did you see my 2 previous post F? 1) Faustine wrote... ."..good old boring long-faced church-every-Sunday solid-citizen Robert P. Hanssen. If his FBI colleagues had been asked to rate him by your above criteria, he probably would have been in the high 200s all across the board. And maybe deservedly so. But since those factors weren't in any way, shape, or form relevant to the fact that he was also the kind of person who could sell out his country for the sheer pleasure of the game of it, he got away with murder for years until he got careless and his shitty tradecraft finally caught up with him." His tradecraft was rather good I thought,especially in not trusting his handlers with direct contact.Possibly he was done in by sex addiction common to many repressed septic tanks(yanks) W.Reichs,mass psychology of facism describes syndrome.Also wanted on some level to get caught,much like Ted special K.(and USAma bin laden?) Did he really get away with murder? Feh.Aldrich ames did and his rep survived polygraphs so reputations are bollocks unless panocoptincons and regular stings/tests are done.Hanssen didnt tell the russkies anything they couldnt have worked out them selves. No response? Trawling for bigger game? pot bellied,aging brilliant thorns in the side of your country? Then...'In praise of gold: "...nothing more than a cop-out. So it seems to me, at any rate. ~Faustine. " Like you last week (agent ?) faustine (cop-in?) Silence speaks volumes in this house. Im calling you out as a patriotic,slightly dim little bitch at the very least,Well?

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CNN and Julie Hilden on the Evil of Anonymity
by Meyer Wolfsheim 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

"Most of us now are happy, for example, to tolerate facial recognition technology at stadiums, and to proffer our driver's licenses at frequent car, truck and airport checkpoints. We no longer can travel anonymously, and that may be acceptable given the risks we now face. But while the ability to travel namelessly may be a prerogative we can sacrifice, what about the right to speak anonymously?" [...] "Finally, to consider some more dramatic possibilities, the government could launch a denial of service attack on any remaining anonymous remailers, which guarantee the privacy of both the sender and receiver of e-mail. It could also simply shut Anonymizer.com down, purportedly in the interest of national security, or legislate any similar services away." [...] "Finally, even if the Court did recognize a First Amendment right to anonymity that extended to private Internet communications, it is important to remember that First Amendment-protected speech could be curtailed, given a compelling government interest and a sufficiently narrowly tailored government measure. And the compelling quality of the interest in fighting terror is a given. " [...] http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/columns/fl.hilden.online.first.11.29/index.h…

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Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation
by Erik Seaberg 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad judgment about which articles are worth reading"--and you can find them by reviewing some articles yourself and measuring similarity of answers. If reviewers aren't willing to highly rate articles they disagree with there's a danger of shutting out unpopular ideas (a common complaint about /. moderators), and you need a critical mass of people willing to rate most of a forum to get started (and it can't be much more than an extra keystroke or two or they won't bother). <URL: http://www.cm.org/faq.html > <URL: http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/ >

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