Two Worlds, One Question
Digital systems can prove a record is intact and who created it. They cannot prove that what it describes actually happened. As AI makes convincing fabrications easy to produce, this distinction becomes critical. Human witnessing, presence, observation, and accountability returns as an essential way to establish truth in a synthetic world.
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The Sixth Moat
Mike Bloch is right that time is the meta-moat underneath all defensible value in the age of AI. But time isn’t empty. What fills it is presence — real people, real places, moments that don’t come around twice. The scarce thing isn’t information anymore. It’s grounded information. Someone was there.
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The Network That Knows You’re Real
A speculative design for a social network where identity is verified through human witnessing, not data. By grounding trust in real relationships and presence, it challenges scalable, algorithmic systems and reimagines online interaction as slower, more accountable, and rooted in social cost rather than frictionless verification.
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