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title: The ZX Spectrum of truth

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# The ZX Spectrum of truth

## Participants

* Lewis Cowles
* Olle Jonsson
* Tom Finill

## Agenda

* to come up with mechanisms for truth proving, with what blocks, why it's good, and how it might be abused

* confidence of things claimed by a user are true
* given they pass a threshold, how valuable are those claims

## Points

* API's to verify
    * Unknown
        * COST
        * Currently not a part of the product
    * Known
        * GitHub
        * Education
    * Problems
        * Begs the ablity to manually attest
* Social credit
    * concept
        * Oracles (sources of truth against a transaction log)
    * unknown
        * When to generate score
        * When to collapse rows (do we pin at some point)
        * context
    * Question
        * Can you drop below a threshold? (maybe zero)
        * by what algorithm / ui would adjustments happen?
        * what are outcomes?
    * Known
        * Simple to count
        * Can be abused
        * Adjustments can be retro-actively applied
        * Two mechanisms (infraction points & credits)
* Ambassador (trusted roles)
    * Known
        * Allows us to change tact and act humanly
        * Difficult to trust that much power
    * unknown
        * What tools we will need to empower trusted people with
    * Questions
        * Could this be entrusted to clients for their own network
        * Would there be levels of this?
        * Could this impact valuation of the platform
* Email domain verification
    * Known
        * Flimsy and temporal
        * Subject to future abuse and unknown party abuse
    * Problems
        * People leave companies and lose access to corporate emails
* Validity by popularity
    * Problems
        * weak validation
        * resolution of who is right
    * Benefits
        * Easy to think about
        * Easy to elicit


Benefit: We can be "flexible" about what the whole thing means, _if we make the decision runtime_.


## APIs

> [Qualification Check](https://www.qualificationcheck.com/) is the world’s most comprehensive online, automated verification service for academic qualifications and professional body memberships.

