capstone: the keymaker - trust by authorship, not virtue
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something whose size is the point. The system that keeps solving
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something whose size is the point. The system that keeps solving
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must also keep some things unsolved — not because it can't reach
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must also keep some things unsolved — not because it can't reach
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them, but because their being unreachable is what makes them holy.
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them, but because their being unreachable is what makes them holy.
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### Capstone — THE KEYMAKER
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Will:
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"The only one who can be trusted not to pick the lock isn't just one
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who chooses not to... people can be forced. It's the one who made the
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key. He by definition cannot pick it."
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THE TRUST LADDER:
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CHOICE coercible — trust until the worst day
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SKILL earned — trust until a better picker comes
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AUTHORSHIP structural — trust without a failure mode
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The keymaker cannot pick the lock — not WON'T, CANNOT. Picking means
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entering by understanding the mechanism from outside, and he never
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stood outside it. Coercion has nothing to grip: you cannot force a
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man to break into his own house.
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Design consequence, binding: build every critical arrangement so each
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party stands in the KEYMAKER position for their half. Trust must rest
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on impossibility, never on virtue. The best security is not a promise
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resisted but an impossibility attempted.
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