Every attempt at values-by-committee dies on one question: whose values?

Every attempt at values-alignment-by-committee has failed on the same rock: whose values? The question does not have to be settled, because coherence does not require agreement.

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The identity paradox: user-managed consent is legally required and practically impossible, because verifying who may see what requires exactly the disclosure the consent exists to prevent.

The path

Follow it in order

Each stop is a page in the graph. The order is an argument — but every one of them is also a door into the rest of it, so you can leave the path wherever it stops being useful.

01The Markle Foundation, and the wall the health council hitWhere the paradox was encountered in healthcare — the same wall the Google summit hit in knowledge.→02Google's top engineers told E. O. Wilson his life's wish was impossibleThe same impossibility, stated by different experts about a different domain, four years earlier.→03Resilient Network Systems: Esther Dyson, the ODNI, and the IRS deploymentThe company built to answer it: verifying identity, reputation and privileges without revealing anything.→04Eric Haseltine, formerly of the ODNI, put five doctorates in one room to break itFive doctorates threw every exploit they could think of at it. The answers were mathematics, not cryptography.→05Faith & TraditionUnlimited concurrent Trust Authorities, none required to agree with or acknowledge any other. The manifold answer applied to belief.→

Where it lands

What the path is for

The point

A Riemannian manifold does not require its local geometries to agree. It requires the transitions between them to compose consistently. That is the whole of it, and it is why a Catholic family, a sovereign perimeter and a HIPAA domain can hold the same resource without conflict.

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