Zero-knowledge proofs are exactly about this kind of problem. They allow you to buy insurance about whether flight X will be canceled because you personally want to hedge your risk of being canceled without the insurance company knowing which specific flight you care about.
If you want to stay with crypto solutions, Kleros does provide a way where a few anonymous humans could evaluate the evidence in a trustworthy manner.
There are legal means to make lying costly. Traditionally, that’s what an oath, to tell the truth, is about.
The State Department could say: “We haven’t persecuted enough of our people for lying, we invite the Department of Justice to persecute employees X, Y, and Z because they lied to congress”. Our press people will from now on give their press briefings while being under oath.
The problem for the State Department is that it doesn’t want to give away its ability to constantly lie to the public, so it’s going to be unwilling to take actions like that, that make its public statements more trustworthy. They want to have it both ways, they want to be able to both lie to the public and be believed by the public at the same time.
Another way is to go through trusted third parties. If there are trustworthy newspapers, evidence can be shared with the journalists behind closed doors.
Zero-knowledge proofs are exactly about this kind of problem. They allow you to buy insurance about whether flight X will be canceled because you personally want to hedge your risk of being canceled without the insurance company knowing which specific flight you care about.
If you want to stay with crypto solutions, Kleros does provide a way where a few anonymous humans could evaluate the evidence in a trustworthy manner.
There are legal means to make lying costly. Traditionally, that’s what an oath, to tell the truth, is about.
The State Department could say: “We haven’t persecuted enough of our people for lying, we invite the Department of Justice to persecute employees X, Y, and Z because they lied to congress”. Our press people will from now on give their press briefings while being under oath.
The problem for the State Department is that it doesn’t want to give away its ability to constantly lie to the public, so it’s going to be unwilling to take actions like that, that make its public statements more trustworthy. They want to have it both ways, they want to be able to both lie to the public and be believed by the public at the same time.
Another way is to go through trusted third parties. If there are trustworthy newspapers, evidence can be shared with the journalists behind closed doors.