<i>> Trust is the decision to forgo attentiveness</i><p><i>> If you can’t trust, you have to pay attention in order to verify – and verifying is expensive</i><p><i>> We’d like to believe that goodness brings us together, but that’s not what the data reveal. According to group studies, we don’t come together because we trust: we come together because we align our intent to mistrust.</i><p><i>> We stick together because our interests align and we suffer the mistrust of others until we can no longer justify it.</i><p>Interesting perspectives.<p>Makes me wonder... what is the state of the art in software systems that could help us to <i>"align our intent"</i> in this <i>"impending cyborg age"</i>?
So we, as a society, invented keys and locks not because there are thieves but thieves came later, because we first invented keys and locks?<p>Inventing, together, keys and locks was an "intent to mistrust" and, hence, created evil?<p>Yeah. But no.