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I enjoy thinking of trust as a social technology. We've seen how ridiculous a trustless transaction system would look with Bitcoin having to validate things to
by polio 4y ago
I enjoy thinking of trust as a social technology. We've seen how ridiculous a trustless transaction system would look with Bitcoin having to validate things to a ridiculous extent. Similarly, a society that distrusts wastes a lot of time and energy doing things by themselves, which is inefficient in the best case and leads down harmful and delusional avenues in the worst. We should be engineering our cities and communities with the intention of creating surface area for trust to emerge (e.g. public transit where we can just coexist in the same space), rather than mandating that trust ought to occur, since that isn't how brains work. Give strangers the opportunity to see that others are not so bad. We all prosper, economically and spiritually.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoGood thoughts. Trust is such a complex subject. For example, I see a fault in current cybersecurity thinking caused by misunderstanding "zero trust". In the right place zero-trust is precisely what we need, and the US government has recently made a huge policy leap in defaulting systems to zero-trust. But oddly (not paradoxically) the place to deploy zero-trust is internally. And the place to design systems which leverage trustability is on external facing ones. People who don't get it throw up their hands and say "that's crazy, it's the people outside we cannot trust". Surely our internal systems are trustworthy, so no need. On the contrary, it's precisely because internal trust already exists that security and low friction benefits accrue from going full zero-trust. For public facing systems the benefit comes from a more trusting stance, backed by high system security and resilience. It's pretty much the opposite from what we've been doing.
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