trust
If you want to fix the web, don’t just ameliorate its symptoms. Instead, transplant another dimension onto the web. Extend the internet right out of your screen and into the rich cacophony of our shared world, with the new dimension of trust.
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
trust infrastructure is perhaps our only answer to creating an expressive and liberal internet that achieves the same goals of illiberal social credit systems without creating a Google Internet Corp. that controls the entire web.
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
Religion is a particularly scalable form of culture, which was arguably the thing thatmade it possible to interact and transact with (i.e. trust) other people far beyond your local community. When you can presuppose that a stranger shares your basic understanding of the world and a foundational moral code, trust is much easier.
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
Today I’ll introduce blockchain as a machine for creating credible commitments . That is, blockchain is a tool for strangers (and indeed nemeses) to make particular representations and commitments to future condition-sensitive action in a trustless way. A blockchain is a tool for enforceable, programmable promises. If this looks similar to contract... See more
Baz • You should design trust infrastructure
Trust doesn’t appear as a Siddhi of the Gene Keys, but it underlies them all. We have to trust in the Siddhis, trust in the Shadows, and trust that the Shadows will reveal the Gifts. Trust is the answer. Trust everything. That is our learning. That is what we are here for.
Fragments of Light, Richard Rudd
Gene Key 57 – Clarity
The less time I spend living in Someday the more it feels like I live in eternity