thanks Dante!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com" target="_blank">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:53 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: [Ripple] Open Society<br>To: <a href="mailto:trustlet@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">trustlet@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<br><br><div><a href="http://opensociety.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://opensociety.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page</a></div><div><br>excerpt from link : <i>"�</i><i><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">If we are to use a decentralized way to compute trust... "�</span></i><div>
<font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;">other excerpt from message below�</span></font></div><div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><i><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;">"</span></font>My project tries to use trust relations to rank information. It tries to map the human trust relations so as to give each person a personalized ranking of information."</i></div>
</div><div><div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xekoukou@gmail.com" target="_blank">xekoukou@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:25 PM<br>Subject: [Ripple] Open Society<br>To: <a href="mailto:rippleusers@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">rippleusers@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br>I recently contacted Ryan to inform him of my interest in using Ripple as a (micro)payment system for a wiki that I am creating and thought it would be nice to inform you all about my project and how it might help Ripple.<div>
<br></div><div>In an recent article of Eli Gothil about metacurrency, I pointed to him about the importance of trust in the effort of creating new currencies. If you are not familiar about metacurrency, It is a project that wants to turn intangible values into currencies, ie to quantify values in an effort to change the flow of those values. The problem with such an effort rests in the fact that People need to trust the creators of those new currencies in order to use them and that will make it very difficult for simple people like you and me to have their currencies accepted. I also pointed to him that the Ripple project does take trust into account to create new economic flows.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Ripple monetary system is simple and intuitive. It could be argued that no effort at all was required to come to such an idea. On the other hand, noone else has ever thought or at least was confident enough to start such a project. And that makes me us wonder why... It is certain that there are a lot of smart people, they should have proposed of such a possibility. It is my belief that the reason that noone else has proposed of such a project is the inability to forget, ie forget of all those things that are taken as granted, axioms that tell how the economy works. �It requires great bravery to forget what many smart take as axioms, ie forget that banks are necessary for the Economy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let us then forget for a moment and�think...</div><div><br></div><div>My project tries to use trust relations to rank information. It tries to map the human trust relations so as to give each person a personalized ranking of information. If Google is a search engine that recommends the same to everyone, what i try is to create a search engine that instead of links between sites uses trust relations between people.</div>
<div><br></div><div>�What are the similarities with the Ripple project. Well if the Ripple project tries to turn everyone into a bank with the use of trust relations, I try to make everyone a newspaper(or a science journal etc) with the use of trust relations. In the Ripple project each user accepts to give a loan to a trustworthy friend, in my project each user will accept information only form trustworthy. Without Ripple or myproject we have to use the banks and news media, even though their trustworthiness cannot be proved by us directly, because we are not technologically capable to find a trust route to the source of the loan or the information, with ripple and myproject we take advantage of such routes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We have many similarities in principle but many differences in the mathematical model, something that is reasonable since we deal with different things.</div><div><br></div><div>What both projects have as a problem is that they are not usefull untill they are usefull to some, ie the kitchen and egg problem. I think if we can help each other.</div>
<div><a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-14/world/england.chicken.egg.riddle_1_chicken-crystal-structure-human-skeleton?_s=PM:WORLD" target="_blank">http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-14/world/england.chicken.egg.riddle_1_chicken-crystal-structure-human-skeleton?_s=PM:WORLD</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://opensociety.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://opensociety.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page</a></div>
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