Organisation record
Royal College of Physicians
The body that licensed medical practice in England from 1518, and one of the essay's examples of an institution built to solve for credibility after printing.
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Used in the essay as one of the post-Gutenberg answers to the new scarcity of trust: a licence that can be revoked is a persistent identity with something attached to it.
The essay's point is that these institutions took centuries and several religious wars to emerge, and that the equivalent for AI does not exist.
Referenced by
- involves
- You Can't Shame a Fork
Source: knowledge/organisations/royal-college-of-physicians.md
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