It is still decentralized representation with even more people involved than the straight up elected rep which you can monitor, tweet and howl at the moon. My feeling is that once at level 3 one would no longer have the ability to recall unless it happened to be someone from your original eight.
It seems more sensible to me to work towards direct representational governance. The tech is just about there for it, it is just a matter of tax slaves not having the needed time to attend to it.
The following iswas written by @matrix-8 and sent to me by e-mail. He's asked me to post it here:
"Here I want to talk about Reputation and possible Sybil Attacks. Especially at the beginning of our venture, a bad guy could spend the time to create a whole network of nonexistent Participants – and get rewarded as if they were real. But, that Value stolen would be almost negligible until the M-8 Platform had accumulated a large number of Members. Presumably, by then we would be able to root out any Sybils.
There will be continual periodic evaluations of one's Peers in their 8-PAC's. Anyone found to be fudging will receive a black mark on their Reputation; and superior activities will receive gold stars. Both positive and negative reports will also reflect back on their Recruiter. Any time anyone interacts with any Member on the platform, the person's Communications will be tagged from 1 to 100 with a numerical grade reflecting their Reputation. And when things really get rolling and Members start to join in Goal Groups that impact the Real World – everyone will be expected to pony up their percentage of the costs involved. In this CauseFunding aspect of the M-8 system, Sybils will be immediately obvious – when their portion of the costs don't show up. (Or, if someone wanted to maintain the Reputation of one of their Sybil entities, they could pay the extra quota for their imaginary Member. In this case, no real damage would be done to one's Peers.)
You can take this with a grain of salt – because I am quite ignorant regarding programming. But, I think that edicted's biggest problem--in his blogs on Reputation--is that it's difficult to guard against the random banditry of Strangers. And in the M-8 system – we're talking about family. You trust your family; you're wary of Strangers. The founders of the M-8 system are going to be a fairly worldly and savvy group. I think we will be able to institute state-of-the-art protections for ourselves. Over time, a person's Reputation Quotient would be their numerical grade times the number of years they've been around. Someone who's grade is 75 over a 10 year period would have a higher quotient than a newbie's 100 for only six months: 750 vs 50. "
Sybil Attacks were somewhat my concern when suggesting the introduction of an optional CAPCHA sustem.
It seems to me that until sentient activity is verifiable in a digitaluzed matrix-8, then one could play with the valves and levers all day long without being ever certain if one is monitoring bot traffic or not.
Just because there is a sentient precence does not exclude them originating from some sweat shop somewhere. That is where the reputation scheme would have greater weight. Its benifits would only.be exerted if a verified sentient is at the wheel; driving the traffic so to speak. 😎