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Dan Romero
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Why do people think proof of human is useful?
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@baseddesigner.eth
To avoid bots in digital products: leaving reviews, sniping memecoins, generating replies
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What happens if you pay people to do that or rent out their proof of human credentials?
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Eddy Lazzarin 🟠
@eddy
People only have one proof of human credential to rent out so you have to convince many individual people to rent theirs to continue to spam/attack. And because people can only get one themselves, they take risk in lending theirs out. In other words, the marginal cost of acquiring an ID and performing an attack is much higher when (1) only humans can get an ID [personhood] and (2) humans can only get one [uniqueness]. There are fewer IDs in the market and require more coordination to obtain.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
But why do I care if you’re human? Does that make you inherently more “valuable” to a protocol than a bot?
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@baseddesigner.eth
Depends on the protocol
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@baseddesigner.eth
bots can be or do anything, same as humans, both valuable things and opposite only bots are far easier, faster and cheaper to make, in infinite amounts and which commonly abuse human made valuable things so you can either allow all and then try to filter, block and make it harder for them, which everyone in web2 started doing a while ago already or do proof of human first and allow smart bots to do non human suitable tasks, range of which increasing significantly with ai
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Eddy Lazzarin 🟠
@eddy
It’s a kind of audience segmentation tool + a way to enforce second-degree price discrimination. Right now, bots are not only low-value users but they can inflict negative externalities on high-value human users. In the future this could change (bots start spending) but the need to segment users, adjust “pricing” (speaking loosely), and isolate negative externalities from low-value users will remain.
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