Trust as Design Material
How do you make trust visible, verifiable, and designable? This thread follows the attestation concept from abstract surface to practical application across creative provenance, human credentials, and failure records.
How does an agent keep, prove, and safely transfer learned behavior?
Reading Path
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The foundation: attestations as a design surface, not a compliance checkbox
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Extending attestations across time — claims that must survive decades
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Applying attestation to human credentials — LinkedIn as the broken incumbent
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The counterintuitive move: attesting to failure, not just success
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Creative provenance: attestation applied to the deluge of AI-generated content
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The market that emerges: provably human artifacts as the scarce resource
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The gap: physical-world provenance that no digital system can yet bridge
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On-chain reputation as a trust mechanism for autonomous agents