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Swearing by something is an interesting concept that we used to do more often; but we don’t as anymore. One used to swear on their mother’s grave, or their children - essentially asking God(s) to be your witness and arbiter of truth. 

In order to make a transaction of trust, (like a claim, a future claim) one needed to have a trusted third party they could both ideologically trust to execute the transaction, and general rules of conduct they would abide by 

in a way, in a world where we don’t know what to trust, you need ways to swear to third parties because that’s what helps us navigate your own world

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

This makes me curious tbh

what has replaced these traditional forms of swearing in todays world? Have we found new "third parties" to invoke, or are we operating in a trust vacuum of sorts?

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I think we are in a vacuum! We’re sort of… lost, difficult to orient ourselves because in some ways our social fabric has lost ways to invoke this “swearing”

It’s a challenger we need to address I guess because it does feel like we’ve replaced swearing with concepts like reputation and algorithms