From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:19:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: re: Dempster-Shafer...(re: Transitive
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At 5:18 AM 5/9/96, watson@tds.com wrote:
>tcmay's approach is elegant, and it's refreshing to find a practical use
>for AI approaches.  I think it needs one more step, though.  If we learn
>to quantify our trust in a key, we still need to know what the threshold
>should be for a given application.  Maybe I can get by with a 0.05 Bel
>for posting to cypherpunks, but maybe I want a 0.95 for a monetary
>transaction.  Seems to need a comprehensive risk management approach,

[was the rest accidentally cut off?]

Anyway, I agree that a more comprehensive system is needed. But even
attaching belief estimates to keys, for example, goes a long way in letting
others than do some transitive calculations.

--Tim May


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