In the context of this post, it's bigger than that. Eve would be a government employee who can likely make new "human" profiles for Mal instead of using her own. Any centralized "human" identification system so we can vouch for a single entity-identity would probably be either run by the government or indirectly controlled by it (someone has to be able to input birth/death records at least, and countries like China aren't going to let e.g. Worldcoin operate within their borders unless they can control accounts).
Spam bots would use stolen/purchased credentials and get shut down. State-level bots would be free.
Most countries don't even have accurate population figures, let alone an accurate list of who is and isn't on there, even if you assumed they wanted to operate openly with no corruption and perfect intentions.
The only thing you could do is build an identity from scratch, karma as you will, but then if it was actually valuable people would sell that (see rich people buying high-powered gaming accounts for the lolz etc)
I think an individual could have multiple digital identities, with varying levels of trust in the veracity of that identity. They would have the ability to create/update/delete (revoke) those identities.
Then busting "Mal" also busts Eve
Eve is vouching for Mal. And when Mal1, Mal2, Mal3 etc are all vouched for by Eve, then they are all trivially linked.
The far bigger problem is "how do you vouch for a single entitiy". How do you prevent Eve having multiple unlinked accounts.
Eve was desperate for grocery money, made a couple bucks this way, and is now permanently locked out of society for it. Now what?
Nobody cares because we're in a hellish dystopia where we're taught (and required) not to! Remember, citizen, empathy is evil!
In the context of this post, it's bigger than that. Eve would be a government employee who can likely make new "human" profiles for Mal instead of using her own. Any centralized "human" identification system so we can vouch for a single entity-identity would probably be either run by the government or indirectly controlled by it (someone has to be able to input birth/death records at least, and countries like China aren't going to let e.g. Worldcoin operate within their borders unless they can control accounts).
Spam bots would use stolen/purchased credentials and get shut down. State-level bots would be free.
Most countries don't even have accurate population figures, let alone an accurate list of who is and isn't on there, even if you assumed they wanted to operate openly with no corruption and perfect intentions.
The only thing you could do is build an identity from scratch, karma as you will, but then if it was actually valuable people would sell that (see rich people buying high-powered gaming accounts for the lolz etc)
I think an individual could have multiple digital identities, with varying levels of trust in the veracity of that identity. They would have the ability to create/update/delete (revoke) those identities.
Well, shit, we found the guy that would build the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
Yes, see other places where humans are supposed to be guaranteed, and bots get banned--like online poker or video games.
They're crowded with bots.