Verifiable information on the interent

Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?

November 1, 2024 — November 1, 2024

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We should probably have put human knowledge on adversarially cryptographically signed systems before now, but we didn’t. Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?

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Obvious candidate solutions include: