Re: [friam] Delegation is the Cornerstone of Civilization: Sharing in Sandstorm.io

On 2015 May 11, at 11:41 , Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote:

> That doesn't answer the question: sure, its where my access to your
> name's comes from. But why do I care about your names? How do I know
> what they mean?

I, as a human, not a computer, care about who Bob thinks is his mother even if he is wrong.
If I ask "Bob.mom = Mathilda" and get TRUE then I have contributed to what I suspect and I may ultimately come to trust Mathilda.
This is psychology, not computer science.
Perhaps computers will learn to make connections wisely someday.
The only programs that I have written that relate to this allow space for people to write notes to themselves in English to remind them where they got a capability.
I see no important computer science issue here.
I see no reason for a program to interpret "Bob.mom" other than a seven character identifier.