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Collective Governance #254

Open chrisn opened 1 year ago

chrisn commented 1 year ago

In section 1.2 Collective Governance, in the final paragraph, "Collecting data at large scales" should be "Collecting data at large scale".

Also, this paragraph could use some citations or examples to support the points being made (pro-social outcomes and bankrolling)

FInally, the "self-dealing" link in this paragraph goes to a definition that frames self-dealing as specific to user agents. But IIUC the context of this paragraph is data collection in a broader sense, so not limited to user agents, so would need to refer to a broader definition.

chrisn commented 1 year ago

Following up on this, section 1.3 says "Loyalty is the avoidance of self-dealing". Conceivably, the UA could be sending data to parties other than the UA implementer. This would also be disloyal, but is currently excluded by your current definition of self-dealing.

npdoty commented 1 year ago

Self-dealing is currently defined broadly to include benefiting other actors, not just the UA implementer:

When a user agent carries out processing that is not in the person's interest but instead benefits another actor (such as the user agent's implementer) that behaviour is known as self-dealing.

jyasskin commented 1 year ago

And #241 discusses some problems with our current definitions of loyalty and self-dealing.

torgo commented 1 year ago

We all agreed it would be good to have an additional citation. We'll keep looking for one.

jyasskin commented 1 year ago

We fixed the use of "self-dealing" in #269. I'm not sure "large scales" -> "large scale" is right: there's more than one scale that's "large", but I don't care much. More citations are always good, but I'm inclined to prioritize that below the other issues and possibly try to publish the document before we've found one. So I suggest label:backburner.

chrisn commented 1 year ago

Reading "at large scales" made me pause as it's seems a less common phrasing than "at large scale" but I also am not too concerned.