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Humans evolved to trust what they see with their own eyes, or what a trusted person told them (with qualifications unique to that person). It strikes me as a positive thing at least psychologically that people will have to stop trusting media, non-local govt, large bureaucracies. The problem is that there is economy of scale to widespread trade which benefits from large scale standards and measures. We will need sources of economic truth that are immune to AI or we will experience a major reduction in living atandards. In large part, commodity money evolved to allow trading between people outside one's web of trust, commerce within the web is managed on a mental ledger. Something like Bitcoin is essentially a necessary condition for an AI world. View quoted note →