Occurs to me an interesting use case for crypto hasn't really been worked out: swearing real oaths.

Thought of it in light of Musk reinstating Alex Jones on Twitter after  saying he wouldn't. 

You'd get a very different culture if the norm was to memorialize that sort of commitment properly.

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Assertions of belief should be subject to change in light of new facts, and staked with utilitarian mechanisms like long bets/predictions. When mere beliefs are wrong, a financial penalty is good enough.

But assertions of values should be treated as more than bets. If you flip on values, you should lose reputation.

I get reverse Gell-Mann with you.

When I know nothing about a subject I have no idea wtf you're saying and when I know a lot about it I'm like, "fuck yes, that's exactly right" there's not a single other person for whom that's true

The distinction here is between shallow play/deep play in the sense of Clifford Geertz' Deep Play essay (which is based on a pre-utilitarian philosophical stance). 

Shallow play bets: committing to certain beliefs being true/false

Deep play bets: committing to certain values being good/bad

Stake $ vs. reputation

I like this idea, especially "If you flip on values, you should lose reputation." A woman in NC ran as a Democrat, but after she won she switched to Republican. No politician, either side, should be allowed to do this without severe consequences... With a loss of reputation being the minimal punishment.