We are naturally predisposed to trust — it's in our genes, and it has helped humanity thrive.

Trust is our undervalued superpower, it is priceless. Let’s explore the unexpected interplay between Trust, Technology, Intelligence, and the Environment.

Intelligence is public, out in the open. We have displayed our intelligence in text, audio, video, products, and services to the universe.

Technology consumes publicly available human intelligence as input, processes the information using enormous electricity, and mimics humans by generating 'Artificial Intelligence' as an output.

Trust is in our heads, in our thoughts. It is private and it can change. Thoughts are evolutionary: nature's language.

We express less than 1% of our thoughts. Human languages have limitations, and cannot compete with nature's language. We brush it under the carpet as intuition or gut reaction.

Technology needs input, thoughts, and trust is not available as input just yet.

Intelligence can be artificial but there is nothing artificial about trust.

“Artificial trust” – the phrase sounds phoney and untrustworthy in itself.

Trust is a prerequisite for high performance and harmony in any team.

Lack of trust at home, work, or society is a sign that humanity is losing sight of the superpower that made us the dominant species in the world.

Replacing human trust with technology is the last frontier, we are not there yet but the price is too high. Do we want to cross the last frontier?

Chris Davis inspired me to think along these lines. Chris is a renowned investor at  Davis Advisors. Chris makes an economic case for trust and provides a framework to quantify trust.

“Let’s take the case of blockchain using technology, as a means of exchange that does not require human trust.

Consider an interesting thought experiment, how much energy needs to be consumed to duplicate trust.

we have to burn a lot of carbon and burn a lot of electricity generate a lot of electricity to generate a substitute for trust.

You think about this idea of operating in a web of earned trust, and we talk about it on a moral plane that this is good, the right way to behave.

You have to have some metaphysical belief in the power of good, but you could be entirely mercenary and simply say, that trust is an incredible source of efficiency particularly in business.”


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