And I'd argue that global consensus is unrealistic and ... • Aaron Parecki

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Balaji S. Srinivasan https://twitter.com/balajis • Jul 25
Great q.

I’d argue that many social apps make use of global consensus on at least *some* values. Could be upvotes vs user counts.

If you can get global consensus on one byte, you can run it again to get global consensus on N bytes (possibly with some upper limit on N).

And I'd argue that global consensus is unrealistic and unnecessary, and pursuing it comes at the cost of too many other useful properties.

Local consensus is more useful and easier to achieve, and still results in perfectly functional systems.

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