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RE: Order by Protocol in Digital Space
It would help me understand if you named some famous social media platforms that adhere to those 3 sets of rules.
It would help me understand if you named some famous social media platforms that adhere to those 3 sets of rules.
Fame isn't a criteria I went by when doing my research. I looked up the academic literature and found that there are some very interesting results.
Now, I will say the concept of decision support system is common and in some form many very important corporations have advanced decision support systems which you might not have heard about. These decision support systems tend to be centralized so they don't benefit the masses while a decentralized decision support system could benefit the rest of us.
This goes beyond social media as you currently would recognize it but it fits more into the Global Graph technology that Tim Berners-Lee talks about where you don't just have graphs but you want to be able to reason over them, to make sense of it all, to have a growing knowledge base with knowledge management, and to have recommenders. What I'm discussing in my blog post is something where only pieces (experimental examples) have been built but the whole has not effectively been built yet, but which eventually will be built around blockchain technology.
Governance is going to be built, but today we do have some examples such as Bitshares, Dash, even Ethereum, where we see collective decisions can be made according to the process written into both the protocol and the culture.
Steem could evolve into something like this with great effort, but then it's also possible to have futarchy (prediction market based decisions), swarm intelligence, and so on. The point is your order comes from rules, and there must be a set of rules for how to change the rules so that the order can always evolve. Feedback is necessary so that human preferences are always taken into account with any change.
I will write more about this in future blog posts because I realize I cannot explain what I want to say effectively in one reply.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_support_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Global_Graph
That helps, I'm a little out of my depth but you are making sense. That IS what coding is: long series of rules which combine to create bigger rules that tie into ethics and economics (and warfare?).