confidence limited to maximum qualities constraint

seveibar / confidis

An uncertain key store for data from agreeing and disagreeing sources

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confidence limited to maximum qualities constraint #2

Open seveibar opened 4 years ago

seveibar commented 4 years ago

A constraint that limits the confidence in an answer to the maximum quality of the sources that agree with that answer. This prevents "popular, but wrong answer" attacks.

seveibar commented 4 years ago

This constraint doesn't work in a system without beliefs

seveibar commented 4 years ago

This also creates a vulnerability "most accurate sources cannot be proven wrong"

seveibar commented 4 years ago

A possible solution to "most accurate sources cannot be proven wrong" is "confidence limited to N source joined maximum quality". (Probably N=2) That way two less accurate sources could potentially overthrow the most accurate source.