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This is a wiki for documentation of the project, Links.
For now it is mostly (1) a repository of research notes , and (2) a place to define terms ... but it is intended to grow into documentation of a functioning product.
Links is a project to build villages.
The project aims to uncover a set of standard features, common to all human reputation systems. It will offer users a decentralized agent that can create a concrete, useful, reputational asset out of the user's electronic history. The asset would be gleaned from multiple channels, multiple domains, multiple information sources. The generalized object that the agent can make, fashioned from these sources, is a 'reputation claim'. Such claims would be made in such a way as to invite verification in the social graph - similar to the way that a 'referees' section of a curriculum vitae invites verification.
The reverse of this process would also be a task for the decentralized agent: To take the reputational claims of others and seek to verify them against whatever public or private social graphs are available to the agent.
The aggregate of this activity is intended to build a networked reputation economy. The economy would exist within and between of layers of 'villages' at many scales.
The work relates to the 'alignment' problem in AI research. The equation for an AI is intended to become: “Look, AI, here’s the deal … publish your reputation in this agreed, verifiable way, or suffer excommunication.”
There's some competition between this wiki or a Confluence wiki for the best place to document the Links project. (This competition is now over - GitHub is the right place.)
There's some legacy material in the Confluence wiki that is embarrassingly hand-wavy ... and also other material in there that is better - particularly research notes- that should be brought over. I wonder if there is a tool to lift a bunch of pages from there to here? Probably 'yes'. (Actually ChatGPT is saying, 'no'.)
@joerasmussen, @indkawickramasinghe, and @madushakumarasiri are using a Trello board for task management. Current working hypothesis is to bring that over to a GitHub 'Project'. This is set-up but so far no content, see here
Really need a page for each key concept - norm, reputation claim, village, agent, connection, connection weight, etc
.... (later) ... really leaning toward everything being in GitHub. 'Projects' for ticketing. This wiki for KB.
