Most writing on authoritarian systems treats them solely as moral failures: bad people doing bad things. This post takes a different approach: systems of control are engineering failures, and the failure modes are predictable from structure alone without requiring (or dismissing) moral interpretation. The core claim: systems of control are...
I've been thinking a lot about trust recently, and about how we as people experience trust and how we represent trust digitally are radically different. Digital trust tends to be binary or scalar out of necessity: you either have access or you don't. Sometimes you get gradients, where we grant...