alt Hacker News> draconian social scoring
This is a legitimate question: should people have reputations? Should their behavior be made more visible publicly, both good and bad? How?
In a small contained society, where consequences are more directly affecting individuals immedately, these questions don't need to be asked, because they're inherantly answered. We now are a society with billions of people, and dire consequences sometimes deferred for a generation, or more. Part of our general failing is the lack of good answers to the above questions. For many people, there are rarely negative consequences for causing harm to others, and the rewards can be very great indeed.
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Isn’t China doing something like this ?
Wonder if it could degrade to something worse than the status quo where reputations are falsely tarnished by competitors purely as a weapon to get ahead…
There's a huge difference between a completely decentralized reputation system like the interpersonal one that has existed since humans first became sentient, and an artificially built top-down reputation system run by a powerful entity (be it the state like in China or megacorps like in the West).
in short: our social sructure has built out so far beyond the Dunbar's number that it has become a haven for psychopaths.
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"Consequences and reputations stemming from one's actions" isn't necessarily draconian social scoring. Without a structure for imposing consequences on wrongdoers, we're not a society, we're just monkeys flinging poo at each other.