Building blocks for privacy like differential privacy have existed for a decade.
The problem is how to assemble them into a fabric that everyone agrees to coordinate within.
An ecosystem schelling point problem, not a technical one.
From other episodes
- Coordination cost needs to be paid if there isn't a schelling point.2026-04-06
- Your files aren't in Obsidian.2026-03-30
- Schelling points have to be sharp.2026-03-09
- Meaningful state tends to accumulate around schelling points in an ecosystem.2026-03-09
- For a schelling point to stay coherent in an ecosystem, everyone has to agree it's reasonable relative to the value of the ecosystem.2026-03-02
- Imagine a folksonomy for private tags.2026-01-26
- Sometimes refactoring something into a schelling point creates unforeseeable value.2026-01-19
- A platform that people find to be a bit better than alternatives and also has a fundamental bonus becomes a schelling point2026-01-19