Most systems that aggregate information also imply authority.
If something is widely agreed upon,
or included in consensus,
or persists over time,
it is often treated as if it is correct.
Aggregation and authority are not the same thing.
A system can:
without determining whether those outputs are true or should be acted on.
When these are combined, systems begin to suggest decisions they do not actually make.
There is no widely used system that:
while remaining neutral about interpretation.
Compute Substrate separates these concerns.
It provides:
It does not provide:
Outputs from the system are:
They show how participants have expressed support.
They do not determine what is correct.
This allows:
The system does not resolve outcomes.
It exposes structure.
Outputs do not imply correctness.
Participation does not imply agreement.
Aggregation does not imply authority.