Instrumenting Trust

Trust as a phenomenon serves as a mechanism to instrument confidence in our social predictions. They are used to mediate scale and time between social and even non-social agents.

Social systems use Trust to mediate non-colocated bounds of time and space in further attempts to strengthen its diaspora of "truthy-ness"—to try to make sure that whatever decisions, guidelines, or exchanges set/had are persistent. Trust, in a way, becomes a fractal looping back onto itself.

This reminds me of Dawson's "The Selfish Gene" and the entire argument of behavior being in categorical alignment with the perpetuation of living DNA. I wonder if Trust is the same for social phenomena. By that notion, would other social phenomena—even those vastly more complex like consciousness—also be instrumentation emblematic of feedback loops for social engagements rippling across time and space?

Contemplating these foundational aspects of Trust, it becomes interesting with ideas related to the previous entry on scale and even technology as a by-product of social mediation. Blockchain is a trust-less system; however, the protocol itself is a means to enforce a social exchange between agents or nodes within a network. While Trust exists in a crypto network, strategy knowledge and governance apply as they do in dyadic interaction with different intensities. Confidence, valence, and accuracy are all operators within Trust, either in our frontal lobe's wetware or the smart-contract protocol. Trust enforce, delegates, leverages, etc., when mediation is needed. Her mediation just means communicating to a brain other than your own. Trust is a foundation part of assuring well-constructed mediation.

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What mediates the instruments of trust between the world of scale and that of our own mind?

What turns a phenomenon into a protocol and back?

What is the next—if any—transition between or even after these two points?

What behaviors might social technology—as an instrument of Trust—facilitate?