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PaulHoule · 2022-07-11 · Original thread
Great quote

   "Computationally, like in real life, if you don't trust the people that
   you're working with, you have to spend a lot more energy to achieve the
   same things," he explains. "If I'm living with you in the same house and
   we don't trust each other, I have to, every time before I leave my house,
   I hide my valuables...  It's so much energy that I have to use just to 
   exist in a room with you, because I don't trust you."
I've been thinking about this book

https://www.amazon.com/SPEED-TRUST-Thing-Changes-Everything/...

which is likely to provoke a lot of eye-rolling but points out the consequences of a "trustless society" will be everything being expensive and slow.

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