Network States

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would you consider running it with a civilization trust graph?

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would you consider running it with a civilization trust graph?
https://mirror.xyz/byldr.eth/fdaGPo1IllQeL7HcO-SKPEX303KmpU6Rjf785kKMHzM

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it's a way to delegate decision making power within a group by following the lines of trust.

Delegations are transitive. A trusts B. B trusts C. Therefore A trusts C, and C now has the voting weight of 3 people in decision making processes should they choose to be involved.

In times of high trust -- very few people with large numbers of votes are needed to agree and make decisions.

But when trusts breaks down, most people DON'T delegate and now the process looks a whole lot more like direct democracy. Lots of debate and ideas to find a new order.

Once people are either exhausted or a good solution to the social unrest of the day is found, delegation goes up -- possibly and probably with new names and faces at the top.

So how to avoid mob rule? 

Well, we put limits on the number of DIRECT delegations. I think something like Dunbar's number makes sense -- 100 to 150 people. 

A person should receive delegations from people who actually know them.

This would mean intuitively that a person with 10,000 or 1,000,000 total delegations is not just trusted by just anyone, but they are "trusted by trusted people" and this will allow for flexibility in situations where a powerful person needs to use their judgement to make a counterintuitive decision.

Delegations are immediately revocable on chain always. 

So bad, corrupt, or unpopular decisions can result in the decision maker(s) losing power overnight.

Followed by a proportional increase in the number of voices to contend with in deliberation.