Comment by lotsofpulp

Comment by lotsofpulp 2 days ago

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> I think "reputation" is absolutely critical to functional societies,

See the popular vote results of Nov 2024 US presidential election. Reputations were on full display.

nativeit 2 days ago

Doesn’t that further defeat the argument for secrecy here?

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  • lotsofpulp a day ago

    The argument was that people's collective judgment, given transparency, will result in good decisions.

    But we see from the Nov 2024 elections (and others, but most glaringly that one), that that is, sadly, not true.

    So the people rejecting Facebook because of Facebook's reputation tells you nothing about whether Facebook is bad, because the people could have just as easily been bad.

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antonvs 2 days ago

> Reputations were on full display.

The problem is that many people liked what they saw. Reputation was still important, but there were different beliefs about what reputations were desirable.

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