# track record speaks for itself (past-as-proof)

*Ordinarily means:* past results are offered as enough proof of future reliability

Offering others a record of the past as the model they should use for its future, so that no further check is asked of it.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [offers](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-offers.proposal), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [records](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-records.document), [past](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-past.temporal), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application), [future](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-future.temporal), [further](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-further.degree), [check](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-check.verification), [asks](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asks.social), [track record](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-track-record.model-and), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [reputation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reputation.social-model)

**Through:** A track record is a model; this move hands it to others as a replacement for checking, so their trust is asked to run on the past alone while the self's future acts stay unverified.

**Novel properties:**
- the past offered in place of a check
- trust requested rather than earned anew
- a model of the self handed to others to hold

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-track-record-speaks-for-itself.past-as-proof*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-track-record-speaks-for-itself.past-as-proof.json*  
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