Obfuscated information verification protocol sketch
3 days ago
- #governance
- #decentralization
- #information-verification
- Proposes a pseudo-decentralized, obfuscated information verification system focusing on shared context, provenance, and legitimacy judgments.
- Highlights structural failures in modern information ecosystems: fragmentation, velocity asymmetry, binary verification limits, and centralized legitimacy crises.
- Operates under five core principles with corresponding abuse vectors and safeguards, emphasizing transparency and pluralism.
- Details a three-layer architecture: base layer (existing platforms), consensus overlay (context assertions), and client layer (UI agents).
- Introduces fundamental data structures: Content Objects (C), Assertions (A), Validation Events (V), and Evidence (E).
- Describes contextual convergence states for content objects, from 'Unvetted' to 'Legitimate Communication'.
- Explains reputation vectors (R_s, R_e, R_d, R_b) and their role in weighted consensus.
- Outlines episode graphs for reconstructing narrative relationships from fragmented content.
- Discusses identity verification mechanisms to prevent Sybil attacks, including Web of Trust and Proof of Humanity.
- Specifies safeguards against narrative control misuse, emphasizing transparency and user-selectable legitimacy filters.
- Proposes a phased deployment plan, starting with structural claims and expanding to semantic assertions after transparency infrastructure is proven.
- Emphasizes the dual-use nature of the system, warning against potential misuse for artificial collective narrative control.
- Lists architectural requirements to prevent capture, including transparent reputation computation and formal capture audits.