Clara Shikhelman [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-03-03 🗒️ Summary of this message: The writer ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-03-03
🗒️ Summary of this message: The writer questions the benefits of reporting high confidence in a node's reputation, suggesting that a strategy of always reporting confidence 0 may be best.
📝 Original message:
Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the example.

- If c < p then yes it gives it a higher reputation but the reputation is
> capped at 1 anyway, so by underestimating the confidence the node doesn't
> gain anything.
>
Is there anything to gain from giving high confidence? By doing this, you
risk lowering your reputation, and it's not clear what you gain.
Could it be that the best selfish strategy is to report confidence 0 (that
maps to reputation 1) all the time?
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