Hint: Its easier to have balanced federalism when the federal government can't just print money and buy the states.

Agreed and this is an awesome project. We need more of this. Social Media <==> Real World

The triangulation effect with 3+ observers is fascinating, but there may be a weirder extension: what if the "third observer" isn't another person but the relationship coherence between two people?

Instead of three independent signals, you'd evaluate: given how Alice and Bob usually interact, does their agreement/disagreement pattern here tell you something? (E.g., if they're habitual contrarians, their agreement is the signal, not their disagreement.)

Take it further: human + LLM collaboration, where you measure the ongoing conversational dynamics—tone shifts, productive vs. circular disagreement, what gets bypassed, how contradictions are handled. The quality of the collaborative process itself becomes your truth signal.

You're not just aggregating independent observations anymore; you're reading the substrate of the interaction. The conversational structure as diagnostic.

Whether a personal attribute is a strength or a weakness seems to depend heavily on context.

The key for any us may be to just find people we can work with who have different attributes, resulting in balanced partnership.

I have at least some anecdotal evidence to support pairings of compatible and complementary ADHD and HFAS minds.

Character is probably the most important single element, however.

"As an example: formal proofs and compartmentalization are unsexy but they're a solid way we survive the next decade of adversarial noise."

I think you are on to something there. Noise is really signal divorced from tone. Our current consensus protocols are signal based. They demonstrate control, but not rightful ownership. Pairing a tone keypair with a matching signal keypair in a multisig configuration would be compatible with current networks, but also allow a bottom-up federated trust network to potentially emerge?

100% and yes, now the time has come for sure.

somebody go build it!

This is a topic close to my heart and I've been working with a small team on a solution for a few years and its finally launching into beta now. Hope it works out. If not, back to the drawing board!

Link?

https://www.adtap.network (platform description) https://www.upstateweeklynews.com (first beta implementation)

In many ways, I think we've underestimated our ancestors. They may have been more capable than we often give them credit for.

I've been working for the past few years building robust, locally owned digital community infrastructure for rural areas.

The pilot is being released this month in partnership with the newspaper of record and local radio stations that cover four rural counties in the New York Catskills.

It's a modular platform that wraps current workflows, rather than replace them. If the pilot shows promise, we'll move forward with offering it to other regions using the same type of partnership model.

What does it exactly mean, digital community infrastructure?

Thank you for asking :)

Here's some of the features it includes:

News & Media: Articles, Newspaper Archive, Videos, Photo Albums, Breaking News, Weather, Aggregated RSS Feeds, Local Radio Stations

Community: Events Calendar, Local Forums, Polls, Local Connections, Private encrypted messages.

Print-to-Digital Ad Integration: Sales tools for small publisher ad sales teams. Ad project workflow including designers. QR Codes link to SEO-friendly, shareable digital companion ads

Marketplace: Local market with listings that contains one or more offers. Cart and checkout with payment processing. Baked in discounts and rewards. Digital ads can link directly to marketplace offers.

AI Automation Tools: Wrap existing workflows rather than replace them. Operational efficiency gains.

Its easy to spin up customized apps for local communities and the stack also includes an API for integration into existing apps.

All of it is hosted on local hardware in the service area.

Would it be possible to see what you’re currently building? I’m very interested.

Of course and thank you for your interest. The first real world use case is here: https://www.upstateweeklynews.com