Lack of follow-through means that too few people actually change and the new equilibrium is not achieved. This makes future coordination more difficult as people lose faith in coordination attempts in general.
If I were to be truly cynical I could create/join a coordination for something I was against, spam a lot of fake accounts, get the coordination conditions met and watch it fail due to poor follow-through. Now people lose faith in the idea of coordinating to make that change.
Not sure how likely this is, how easy it is to counter or how much worse than the status quo coordination attempts can get...
In general, a commitment means little if there’s no punishment for failing to follow through. If a platform can’t impute a punishment on those who fail to follow through, it is not particularly good, maybe not even the thing we’re talking about.
Regarding sybil attacks, in New Zealand, there’s a state-funded auth system called RealMe that ensures one account per person. You use it for filing taxes. I’ve seen non-government services (crypto trading platforms) that use it, as any other site would use facebook or google auth (it’s also conceivable that facebook might provide fairly reliable real identity verification one day).
So many online systems need something like this.
In conclusion: Very simple state functions (violence-backed contract enforcement. A real identity auth system) can change the possibility space a lot
Lack of follow-through means that too few people actually change and the new equilibrium is not achieved. This makes future coordination more difficult as people lose faith in coordination attempts in general.
If I were to be truly cynical I could create/join a coordination for something I was against, spam a lot of fake accounts, get the coordination conditions met and watch it fail due to poor follow-through. Now people lose faith in the idea of coordinating to make that change.
Not sure how likely this is, how easy it is to counter or how much worse than the status quo coordination attempts can get...
In general, a commitment means little if there’s no punishment for failing to follow through. If a platform can’t impute a punishment on those who fail to follow through, it is not particularly good, maybe not even the thing we’re talking about.
Regarding sybil attacks, in New Zealand, there’s a state-funded auth system called RealMe that ensures one account per person. You use it for filing taxes. I’ve seen non-government services (crypto trading platforms) that use it, as any other site would use facebook or google auth (it’s also conceivable that facebook might provide fairly reliable real identity verification one day).
So many online systems need something like this.
In conclusion: Very simple state functions (violence-backed contract enforcement. A real identity auth system) can change the possibility space a lot