Interesting post, novel topic that is worth deepening, since we are experiencing social changes very quickly, and we do nothing but run after them to avoid being left behind.
Interesting post, novel topic that is worth deepening, since we are experiencing social changes very quickly, and we do nothing but run after them to avoid being left behind.
Automatic fact checking via bots for example could allow Steem to produce higher quality information. Any post about a topic can immediately be fact checked in real time if the platform were designed for it.
Any hints on how this could be achieved in secure way? Or may be not exactly 'secure' but industrially reliable? Asymptotic certainty increase via mutual checking of inputs, or brute force plurality of inputs and 'contradicting channels' one eliminated?
There may be many possible specifications. The point is that Steem supports bots and bots already check posts for plagiarism which is to say all it would take is a network of bots to provide automated fact checking. The way I would do it is to simply create a market for these sorts of bots by rewarding the bots with upvotes which provide this feature in a reliable manner.
There are some facts which may require human observation to confirm rather than just bots but that is already being tackled via the Smart Oracles concept.
In order to survive the capacity for resilience must be increased. Wisdom building can accomplish this. Bitcoin for example acts as memory, but it's not enough because it doesn't actually build wisdom. Steem provides social media which is entertaining but it's not producing much wisdom for the amount of content, users, and resources.
This isn't to say that every crypto platform has to be focused on producing something serious. Steem for example may evolve to produce news from the community perspective. The issue with news is that ultimately there is nothing on Steem which would guarantee that it would remain fact based.
So to be wise requires collecting facts, it requires piecing together those facts, and this is something Steemit doesn't really help with. In fact nothing in the crypto space seems to help with that which is why so much useless information floats around, so many scams flourish, etc.