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Back to an interpersonal protocol that would work without the "trusted" third party. Imagine we all have on our machines a customisable communication protocol that could broadcast and receive messages from anyone and we can set up various filters and challenges - so first we allow individual protocols to talk between themselves and find out whether there's a match - then move onto personal communication.
That' s how we could get rid of all the 3rd party portals FB, LinkedIn... and have total control.
But, there's a bit of psychological work that needs to be done - to establish rules of engagement so people know what to expect, how to protect themselves, how to communicate at the right level. That could be AI assisted.
mwollny-
Neato. Probably would want some sort of weighting for proximity too; talking to folks on the other side of the world is all very well, but IMO we need to be thinking about building local communities up from their current status as extremely tenuous or virtually nonexistent. Dunbar's number should probably figure somehow...
Kimmo
Need to candyflip the populace, huh.
Build a religion around hallucinogens.