On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Wei Dai wrote:
But there is a scalar number attached to a person which deserves the name "reputation capital", namely his own judgement of what his reputation is worth.
What's your number? People don't think of themselves as a '5'. Even Hitler thought he was the good guy in the fight. 'good', 'bad', etc. are most certainly NOT scalar.
The idea of reputation capital solves an important problem
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