Solution Overview: The Knowledgecoin Answer
In a Time of Universal Deceit telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act
Humanity Needs a Reliable of System of Record
Knowledgecoin promises a remedy to misinformation & propaganda, by addressing six central features of the current misinformation epidemic, as follows:
Accountability — Who has a reliable record of credibility for making valid truth claims and who has a history of false or invalid claims?
Gatekeepers of Information — Is the raw data of the world wide web properly tagged and indexed by Big Tech so that I can find the data that I require without undue confusion, bias or censorship?
Changing Definitions — Do we have a common, clear definition of any given concept, and, if not, how do I translate between the confusion of those who use the same words differently?
Valid Logic — Are the concepts used in a given truth claim or set of claims logically coherent or are they contradictory?
Valid Reasoning — Even if a truth claim is not itself contradictory, does it contradict any of our currently accepted knowledge, have the proper context, and engage properly with the evidence?
Immutable Repository – Does the knowledge repository have an indelible record of changes, so that no stealth edits can possibly occur in its edit history?
Without a solution to these challenges, the average person does not stand a chance against the misinformation pandemic which caters to the powerful interests of government, Big Tech, media, and academia, which function like a cartel, blocking the almost-realized dream of a validated system of record for humanity’s knowledge on the internet. In this so-called information age, the more information we all seem to have, the less we all seem to know, in which case we are, more accurately speaking, in a misinformation age.
Knowledgecoin promises to resolve these seemingly intractable problems, immunizing its users from the misinformation epidemic, if not ending it altogether. Unlike the hollow promises of Silicon Valley, Knowledgecoin presents a truly unbiased, reliable, verifiable, universally accessible informational utility.
By stark contrast, restricting access to knowledge to a centralized, powerful elite has resulted in disaster for as long as humans have kept records. But for the first time, the tool of blockchain technology affords humanity the power to wrest back knowledge from the grip of the powerful – who can neither censor nor destroy the blockchain.
Knowledgecoin’s mission is to become the first ‘system of record’ for humanity’s knowledge that rewards users for: self-validating truth claims, refuting falsehoods and misinformation, finding meaning by crowd sourcing critical analysis, and identifying truth from the web of lies surrounding us all.
Knowledgecoin is a Novel Blockchain Community for the Validation of Ideas
Knowledgecoin is a knowledge creation, validation, storage, and retrieval ecosystem accessed via a decentralized network.
The Knowledgecoin ecosystem has the unique quality that all concepts, context, logic and reasoning can be examined and self-validated by every member of the community.
First: What is Knowledge?
Second: What is Knowledgecoin?
Knowledgecoin Application Stack
deTruth, a repository of all completely validated knowledge.
deKnow, the decentralized Knowledge repository (which will indicate increasing levels of verification)
deReason to check any non-contradictory claims which pass through the deLogic filter against information already validated in the knowledge-base.
deLogic to resolve self-refuting claims
deBabel, a Universal Concept Translator™ that gives users the power to see how words are being twisted to confuse and deceive.
deTag, a tool for the tagging and indexing of raw data
Knowledgecoin Functional Stack
Universal Concept Translator. One of the greatest products Knowledgecoin’s miners and algorithms will generate is a conceptual mapping of every key word, term, phrase, and concept in every relevant claim that makes it through and into the system, identifying, exposing, translating, and eliminating all language that is equivocal, vague, obtuse, hyperbolic, or otherwise misleading, replacing it with clear interpretations of what the original language used may and may not coherently mean.
Logic & Reason Conformance Engine. Our Logic & Reason engine will hold everyone’s feet to the fire of unequivocal articulate speech, preventing confusion by the use of rhetoric, abstraction, and other forms of sophistry.
Decentralized. No individual or group can seize control of the blockchain.
Privacy. All research within, contributions to, or other exchanges within the Knowledgecoin domain will be protected against eavesdropping and other invasions of privacy.
Search results you can trust. Because this is an island economy structured to guarantee the goodwill of all its users, and because anyone can verify the validation process employed to admit any information into the knowledge-base through the immutable record on the blockchain, users are guaranteed reliable search results.
Search efforts you can be rewarded for. Because our analyses of users performing searches within the knowledge-base will generate better search engine optimization for future users performing similar searches, Knowledgecoin will not hoard the economic benefits accruing to the utility of the search engine, but rather will share them with the users generating such SEO improvements through their research efforts.
No Sock Accounts. The real identities of people using Knowledgecoin will be verified in such a way that users cannot have sock accounts, even if their public facing identities are hidden behind user name pseudonyms. All users will have real, trackable reputations, akin to the sorts of ratings that sellers develop in Amazon or eBay, or that drivers and passengers give each other in Uber.
No Bullying. Given the requirement of real identities and the consequences of real reputations, the sort of disincentives missing in standard social media venues that make bullying possible will be prominent in the Knowledgecoin island economy’s communications domains.
Opt-in advertising. Users will have the opportunity to opt-in to, and thus be paid to view, the sorts of advertising they prefer, and not to be inundated with anything they do not opt-in to view.
The study of what knowledge is, of what criteria must be satisfied for anything to count as true knowledge, by what means it is produced, assessed, and confirmed is “epistemology”, that branch of philosophy that aspires to enable individual agents of knowledge, “epistemic agents”, to distinguish fact from fiction, knowledge from belief, truth from falsity, and reality from illusion.
Knowledgecoin is a protocol token whose blockchain runs on a novel proof, called Proof-of-Knowledge, where blocks are created by knowledge producers storing knowledge and miners competing to verify that knowledge as valid.
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