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Epistemology in the Cloud - On Fake News and Digital Sovereignty

Henry Story

The web allows anyone to say anything and so raises the age-old question of epistemology. Starting from a recent analysis of knowledge using counterfactual logic, the author goes to show how control of the hardware on which content is located is essential to thought. But since thinking is a social activity we need to be able to co-operate to do so across nodes owned by different actors. This sets strong requirements on a feasible architecture for peer to peer cooperation. An architecture to do so is described which furthermore has space for all kinds of actors from individuals up to the largest institutions.

The current article is online here:
https://co-operating.systems/2018/10/23/C3W
The slides are here:
https://co-operating.systems/2018/10/23/