Humans on the Blockchain: Why Crypto Is the Best Defense Against AI Overlords

What made them incredibly successful was their ability to formalize humans on the web.

The steep price is the privacy of a society that no longer connects via dial-up but lives online 24/7. The question we now face is how can we formalize humans online in a decentralized way, hence guaranteeing a voice and a vote for everyone without making them subjects of corporate propaganda?

In order to establish a frontier between ourselves and internet AI, we need a decentralized protocol for singular human identities.

Instead, a human consensus should be the source of legitimacy, effectively constructing a one-human-one-node graph to unlock the full potential of blockchain governance.

This is far from a trivial task: formalizing humans in decentralized networks requires preventing bots, Sybil attacks, bribes and a Big Brother from emerging.

A machine's perception threshold can be measured using Turing tests, tasks designed to tell robots and humans apart.

Network policing cannot be strictly algorithmic if we want the humans to be in charge.

Human consensus over the internet should be able to be deployed anywhere and provide tools able to measure the inclusive capacities of blockchain economies.

If a consensus for human nodes gets widespread adoption, social applications that range from borderless democracies to encrypted peer to peer lending to Universal Basic Income can become a reality.

The real risk of formalizing humans on the blockchain is not doing it.