Todd Boyle wrote: > > Szabo's works are brilliant, http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ etc. > > They do contain a number of faulty foundations however, > For example this classic essay 1997, which I admit, probably > exceeds the sum total of my accomplishments, > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_9/szabo/index.html > .. has some tragically wrong things in it, such as.. > > "Reputation relies on intermediaries to convey information." > > ...anybody care to discuss that here? (The empirical > evidence of past behavior is all over the place and does > not require intermediaries to observe. One might > argue that persistence of facts in repositories are > necessary. But persistent facts need not be warehoused > by a service provider, let alone, an "intermediary" in > trade.
It seems to turn on what the definition of an intermediary is. Is it the case that he is defining it widely and you are defining it narrowly? -- iang
