Part II — Why Reputation Is the Currency of Autonomy

Reputation needs to be scored

1) FICO for machines: reputation becomes the global permission system

In the human economy, credit is not “money.”
Credit is permission.

FICO works because it compresses trust into a portable signal.
It tells the system: “You can take a risk on this person—and here’s how much.”

Agents need the same thing.

Not because agents are conscious.
But because markets r…