Here are some classic ways humans can get some kind of social credit with other humans: 1. Do something for them such that they will consider themselves to 'owe you' and do something for you in future 2. Be consistent and nice, so that they will consider you 'trustworthy' and do cooperative activities with you that would be bad for them if you might defect
I don’t know if you’ve read it but Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow has a notion of Whuffie, a sort of social credit system used to guide resource allocation for scarce/competitive resources in the largely post scarcity setting of the novel. There are other examples of formalized social credit scores of a kind in fiction but this has always been the quintessential one for me.
In real life, outside of certain systems like LW and Metaculus and the like that have networked systems for judging noteworthiness (and aim not that familiar with how those work under the hood), I can’t think of any attempts to semi-formally represent social credit in the way we have for, well, credit (though as you point out in a sense the whole financial system is a kind of formalization of ad hoc roles).
I don’t know if you’ve read it but Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow has a notion of Whuffie, a sort of social credit system used to guide resource allocation for scarce/competitive resources in the largely post scarcity setting of the novel. There are other examples of formalized social credit scores of a kind in fiction but this has always been the quintessential one for me.
In real life, outside of certain systems like LW and Metaculus and the like that have networked systems for judging noteworthiness (and aim not that familiar with how those work under the hood), I can’t think of any attempts to semi-formally represent social credit in the way we have for, well, credit (though as you point out in a sense the whole financial system is a kind of formalization of ad hoc roles).