We have that, with NIP-05. If you have a gitcitadel or theforest or nostr.land NIP-05, then you're either a human or a very useful bot that doesn't pose as a human.
That's why I don't see the bots.
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I dont see many bots either
NIP-05 does some of this, although it's probably not beyond the capabilities of a bot to create a .well-known file at some domain.
The solution I have in mind are Nostr identities that it costs money to create, and which can be stored permanently in air-gapped cold storage (e.g. in a bank deposit box). This makes the identity very secure and the user can be confident that they will never forfeit their identity through theft of loss of a private key.
Having this sort of identity will hopefully encourage people to invest more effort in building a serious online persona. The idea is that this may organically result in higher-quality "content" created by humans, which then in turn makes it easier and maybe even trivial to separate wheat from chaff.
An identity of that sort crucially requires a key revocation and replacement mechanism, which I've implemented at Inkan. As far as prototypes / proofs-of-concept go, I'd say it's been working pretty well so far.
How about self-owned domains? I "host" my NIP-05 myself.