Nick Szabo  🔑

@NickSzabo4 @jgarzik If I sign over "I am when I semant" then I have to live or slide by the claim.

@iang_fc @jgarzik "Live or die"? Who is going to kill you? Such wet semantics is motivated by human actions if at all: not by the crypto.

@NickSzabo4 @jgarzik cf Karl Popper, in contract, I let my reputation die in my stead. Crypto captures, people judge.

@iang_fc @jgarzik Reputation, like IDs, are local, insecure, and expensive vs. crypto & block chain global, secure & cheap.

@NickSzabo4 @jgarzik Yep, but my rep is the only one I've got! Built up over time by many small tx. Waiting to upload into the blockchain ;)

@iang_fc Your and @NickSzabo4 's reputation come from your writing and ideas over the years, not your tiny BTC transactions! @jgarzik

@socrates1024 @NickSzabo4 @jgarzik Right! And ideas aren't worth spoofing. But contracts? How does a contract differ from a Tx?

@iang_fc @socrates1024 @jgarzik People spoof ideas often & how is Alice in Albania going to enforce her contract with Zed in Zimbabwe?

@iang_fc @jgarzik Crypto does not protect against misinterpretation. PKIers please stop suggesting or implying that it does.

@NickSzabo4 @jgarzik There remains rich greenfield open space in actually creating semantics in words; capturing with crypto.

@iang_fc @jgarzik Crypto catches syntax (or computer code semantics if run on block chain) . Brain at other end catches human semantics.

@NickSzabo4 @jgarzik and a page captures poetry from a poet; it can move a person to tears. Can the poet renege?

@iang_fc @jgarzik Some cry, many ignore, some may laugh for reasons poet knows not. Cultural: local, insecure, costly.