Aside from scalability problems, a large part of consensus failure is due to non rational reasons, such as tribalism (left vs right), loyalty, stubbornness, pride and other emotions
Tau indirectly addresses these too, as it removes most emotions from the equation and users aren't as easily subject to in group - out group manipulation
ohad's new explanation blog is really worth checking out for more details on the project
In other words we can debias which can lead to true decentralization. Also debiasing is necessary to develop AI with increasingly less bias.
Agreeed @dana-edwards
I have been following you since i made an account but i saw your first here