Decius wrote:

flynn23 wrote:
When you're shifting wealth by monetizing other people contributing content without them receiving any of the value chain, that's just slavery. And I think Lanier is saying it's not just economic slavery, but intellectual slavery as well.

I also don't agree that reputation systems are the answer to this problem in totality.

In order to spread money through the value chain you have to have some way to measure value - thats what reputation systems measure.

But reputation doesn't care about well being. So I might have a great and trusted brand for spewing obnoxious shit that people are somehow compelled to consume. It does very little to find equilibrium between obnoxious shit and something wholesome.

Neither does money. I don't have a solution for the problem of bad taste.

touché, but I'm still saying that reputation systems don't solve the problem in totality. Ironically, my last startup attempted to quantify the value in health, by actually measuring people's biometrics and looking for improvements or regressions. The more you improved, the more value you created, the lower your costs. So I get it, but it doesn't solve the problem that someone will game the system to either corner the value without proper compensation to contributors (a la social networking et all) or to extract value without putting anything into it (a la the finance industry and most government programs).

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