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Ask HN: Where are human/resident/citizen-only online convos available?

3 pointsby pc2g4dabout 1 year ago
With LLMs and foreign troll farms and bot nets, it seems it would be valuable for Americans, or any country&#x27;s citizens, to have conversations that more or less can be relied on to be carried out by their fellow citizens. For global contexts, the ability to have conversations with very-likely-to-be-human-beings also seems increasingly desirable.<p>Is this being worked on? Seems like a business opportunity to provide independent proof-of-human in digital form.<p>Centralized and distributed approaches all appeal. Whatever happened to the Web of Trust?

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sim7c00about 1 year ago
more and more i feel this is not going to be possible at some point. wanted to say &#x27;go to a bar&#x27; , not jokingly. sad to say it too because i hate outside. if someone can come up with an actual solution cool. maybe if digital identities are further its possible but that would them likely be govt controlle &#x2F; censored etc. and likely also not quite what youd want. saw some attempts at people making digital identitt based on blockchain, but if its not actually verifiable to a real person (which that is not) ur still in the same boat.<p>think about it. biometrics might be needed, and whos gonna have that database?? voice, text etc. is not enough. the next would be iris scans fingerprints etc. i suppose.<p>how does one identify themselves? how can you prove to me, you are you? biometrics only really, but i cant verify those.. only people you trust with that data can. and who would that be? are they trustworthy to me?<p>so id say. go to a bar. sorry.