Future of Trust
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Future of Trust
When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them.
And this is already happening. You can see it in the shift from public social media to close friends lists. In the rise of group chats, Discord servers, and paid Substacks. In people using fake names and burner accounts as default. In
... See moreJasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
Reciprocal transparency. If you can see me, I should be able to see you. Not your marketing copy, but your actual ownership structure, how you make money, what you do with my data, who benefits from my participation. The asymmetry has to collapse. This is what Signal figured out early. If you’re going to ask people to trust you with their
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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Beyond the Hype
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Max Weber introduced a three-fold typology of legitimacy, the sentiments that get people to acquiesce to authority, especially regarding rules or commands they may dislike or disagree with.[viii] For most of human history, the most common kinds of authority have been traditional or charismatic. Traditional authority appeals to the “eternal... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
3 ways that rules have “legitimacy” - Traditional authority, charismatic authority, and legal validity / objective rationality
With a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are still building for an economy of participation when we're entering an economy where participation itself has become the liability.