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Recorded on July 18th

Democratized Expertise

This is absolutely my favorite episode so far. It runs long, but I would highly recommend listening to the entire discussion.

We have a spirited discussion on the topics of democratized expertise, webs of trust, and reputation tokens by examining the current education system.

We hear perspectives from purists, business heads, and PhDs.

These are the questions we ask:

How would a system of permissionless expertise operate?

How would it free experts from undesired positions of authority?

How would it give countless people access to the world of progress and production and unleash a tidal wave of discourse, equality, education, and innovation?

Time

Subject

3:30

Community HighlightNethlek

5:00

NewsBittrex DelistWhite Paper Proposal and PollCall for Marketing Initiatives

12:30

Project brief: Rosetta@HomePartnership with The Audacious ProjectDavid Baker's TED TalkFoldItZooniverse

34:10

Democratized Expertise

35:15

The Current System

36:25

The Alternative System

38:10

Opening Discussion

42:00

Trusted vs Trustless Systems

46:50

Web of Trust

48:45

The Problem

50:10

A PhD's Perspective

55:55

Using Blockchain to Boost Efficiency in the Current System

58:30

Mob Rule vs Fluid Democracy

1:05:20

Chain of Trust

1:08:30

Web of Trust Part II

1:12:45

Another PhD's Perspective

1:18:00

Stack Overflow as an Example

1:18:35

Seeding Reputation Systems

1:26:00

Nepotism in Reputation Systems

1:27:15

Money in Reputation Systems

1:27:30

Punative Mechanisms in Reputation Systems

1:30:15

Closing Discussion

Project brief: Rosetta@Home

 

This week @delta1512 introduces us to computational driven protein folding. Protein folding is a novel science that provides a means to cure disease and create new super materials. Because proteins are awesome.

Folding is the process where you take the strand that makes up the protein and model it into a different shape. This shape is very important because it defines what the protein does and whether it will fall apart later on.

Join us for the next episode where Delta will be introducing CERN's LHC@Home.

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

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