One story triggered the desire of commenting on some important issues.
I want to talk about this, and many other elements revolving around it. Let’s call it the triggered article (TA) the one containing the messages I wish to comment on. To open the connections I drawn this plot:
And, another plot:
The discussion about the mixing of Web3 and BlockChain is getting hot. The discussion about the usefulness of the trust-ability or lack of it, is getting hotter. If we need layers of auditors over layers of auditors, over layers of auditors. Sometimes I have to control myself to not blogging about certain topics or properties of our beautiful society (BS), but then I remember how we got here, and remember that many of us are the contra-balance of some other elements of the BS, adding to my thoughts that many of the ideas expressed here in this Medium are actually the elite of the public opinion, and that if you are not participating in the discussion, then you have to literally swallow everything that comes next, because the day of election closed and you were asleep, and finishing deciding writing these few paragraph to not feeling guilty in the 2032 when I see the disaster and say:
I told you so!
In the TA there is a great discussion, I have to say about, about how hard is to get rid of a third party to audit: (1) what we eat, (2) what we fish, (3) what we consume, and there is some insistence on the not recognition of the immutability and not reversibility properties of a BlockChain as a mechanism to substitute some of the endless conflicts emerged by the trust-ability or not trust-ability… and in the end it looks like is not favoring automation using smart contracts, and .. well in the very end the final message is somehow diffuse, but what exactly triggered my desire to write were expressions like: How do we know that the BlockChain is been well supervised, that the first layer of auditors are not corrupted and somehow modifying the desired results of detecting anomalies, or procedures falling out of the purpose or goal for which that BlockChain was created, etc, etc (hope to be expressing well enough, I am making an effort here).
Audition is an important process for having goods and services working properly for the people, and having some modest levels of auditions is ok. The problem is that every two years new administrations come and start proposing some new layers of auditions of a process that was working well, but out of 1000, they found 1 (an anomaly) that escaped from the full process and propose a whole change of the previous procedure in favor of “fixing” the anomaly, and make uncomfortable to the other 999 people that behaved perfectly well, and from whom had not problems or issues. So, instead of going after the anomaly and demand “fixation” of the problem, our BS add an extra layer of bureaucracy to this or that procedure and voila! A new item has been added to the list of paperwork you need to give to finish this or that other procedure.
I have found a lot of people: “How do we know that…” Sure enough there are places where your questioning or suspiciousness is important because is closely related with what you are doing immediately, but there are a lot of places where your mistrust is not actually required! You are just a contributor to another layer in the sea of layers of auditions, which brings as consequence the increment of the Not so beautiful bureaucracy (NsBB) and of course a decrease of individual freedom which affect us all.
If you want a promotion in your job or activity, try not to propose new layers of auditions to procedures, try to solve the issues with automation, or ML, or BlockChain, but please if the human population is only increasing and too many people start proposing only new layers of auditions and the increment of the NsBB, try to imagine this by 2032!
So from my point of view the mixing Web3+BlockChain is a great combination to fight a lot of the trust-ability issues that emerged in the mistrust competition for increasing the NsBB. With less bureau, the planet should see happier humans, and with that more effective and productive projects. But if no one says a word, the circle of the first picture above is only going down in diameter, and that really makes me uncomfortable.
That’s it for today!
till next time,