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Fractalguy: /* Who to Trust? */

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Who to Trust?

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	== Who to Trust? ==		== Who to Trust? ==
	Deciding who to trust with important advice about [[life choices]] is tough these days. There are a lot of wrong choices out there vying for your attention. The more thy vie, the less you should trust them. That is the first rule.		Deciding who to trust with important advice about [[life choices]] is tough these days. There are a lot of wrong choices out there vying for your [[attention]]. The more thy vie, the less you should trust them. That is the first rule.

	Why should you trust this [[wiki]]? It says a lot of things about the nature of [[reality]], but so do a lot of people. What makes this [[wiki]], and other trustworthy sources of [[information]], any different?		Why should you trust this [[wiki]]? It says a lot of things about the nature of [[reality]], but so do a lot of people. What makes this [[wiki]], and other trustworthy sources of [[information]], any different?

Fractalguy: /* Who to Trust? */

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Who to Trust?

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	* Doesn't depend on any unverifiable [[supernatural]] claims.		* Doesn't depend on any unverifiable [[supernatural]] claims.
	* Doesn't depend on [[Theory of everything\|~~unpublish~~ scientific theories]].		* Doesn't depend on [[Theory of everything\|unpublished scientific theories]].
	* Doesn't depend on rejecting the [[scientific]] consensus in any major field of study.		* Doesn't depend on rejecting the [[scientific]] consensus in any major field of study.
	* Doesn't suggest any [[conspiracy]] to keep this knowledge from the public.		* Doesn't suggest any [[conspiracy]] to keep this knowledge from the public.

Fractalguy: /* Restoring Trust */

2025-06-20T12:50:46Z

Restoring Trust

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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}
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			This fascinating conversation with researcher Todd Rose explores our collective illusions--our [[beliefs]] in what others think and our desire to conform. Our ability to trust one another depends on our authenticity. When people don't feel free to express their true [[beliefs]] publicly, they assume everyone else is lying about what they [[believe]] as well.
			{{#ev:youtube\|https://youtu.be/Tj6ptwWOgkU\|\|center\|Todd Rose - Are We Living in the Truman Show?\|frame}}

	== Trust Issues ==		== Trust Issues ==
	Drake's trust issues have only increased since Kendrick turned pop [[culture]] against him.{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}		Drake's trust issues have only increased since Kendrick turned pop [[culture]] against him.{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}

Fractalguy: /* Restoring Trust */

2025-03-04T13:22:47Z

Restoring Trust

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	== Restoring Trust ==		== Restoring Trust ==

	Videos offering ideas for how to restore trust in our [[institutions]].		Videos offering ideas for how to restore trust in our [[institutions]]. It may be a moot point since the lack of trust has caused people to vote the [[institutions]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voted_off_the_island off the island] completely, but this might have prevented it?

	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVeq-0dIqpk\|\|center\|How to build (and rebuild) trust \|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVeq-0dIqpk\|\|center\|How to build (and rebuild) trust \|frame}}

Fractalguy: /* Restoring Trust */

2025-03-04T13:20:14Z

Restoring Trust

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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMkMuV5SWlQ\|\|center\|How to Restore Trust in America’s Institutions\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMkMuV5SWlQ\|\|center\|How to Restore Trust in America’s Institutions\|frame}}
	<br>		<br>Rachel Botsman is one of the leading experts on the subject of trust.
	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGksNRYu8s\|\|center\|We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGksNRYu8s\|\|center\|We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers\|frame}}
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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}
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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}		== Trust Issues ==
			Drake's trust issues have only increased since Kendrick turned pop [[culture]] against him.{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}

Fractalguy: /* Restoring Trust */

2025-03-04T13:14:58Z

Restoring Trust

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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGksNRYu8s\|\|center\|We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGksNRYu8s\|\|center\|We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers\|frame}}
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			{{#ev:youtube\|https://youtu.be/tYTFDnWMqQo?t=82\|\|center\|Earning Trust in Times of Uncertainty with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}
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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrosjWB_jKg\|\|center\|How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman\|frame}}
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	{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}		{{#ev:youtube\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGpBAOD2CI\|\|center\|Drake - Trust Issues\|frame}}

Fractalguy: /* Trust in Institutions */

2025-01-29T13:28:13Z

Trust in Institutions

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	== Trust in Institutions ==		== Trust in Institutions ==

	Trust in [[institutions]] is a [[necessary prerequisite]] to [[progress]] in modern society. Since nobody can have true expertise in more than a few of the thousands of technical disciplines that currently exist, it is necessary to have authorities that can be trusted to deliver accurate [[information]] and recommend [[best practices]] to the people.		Trust in [[institutions]] is a [[necessary prerequisite]] to [[progress]] in modern society. Since nobody can have true expertise in more than a few of the thousands of technical disciplines that currently exist, it is necessary to have [[authorities]] that can be trusted to deliver accurate [[information]] and recommend [[best practices]] to the people.

	The erosion of this trust in recent years has resulted in increased [[political]] polarization, the proliferation of [[misinformation]] and [[conspiracy theories]], [[wikt:contrarian\|contrarianism]], [[pseudoscience]] and [[grift]]. [[Social media]] [[platforms]] have accelerated this process by allowing the [[promotion]] of this [[information]] to a global audience, where in the past there would be editors, producers, and fact checkers that would prevent these corrosive [[ideas]] from reaching a wide audience.		The erosion of this trust in recent years has resulted in increased [[political]] polarization, the proliferation of [[misinformation]] and [[conspiracy theories]], [[wikt:contrarian\|contrarianism]], [[pseudoscience]] and [[grift]]. [[Social media]] [[platforms]] have accelerated this process by allowing the [[promotion]] of this [[information]] to a global audience, where in the past there would be editors, producers, and fact checkers that would prevent these corrosive [[ideas]] from reaching a wide audience.

Fractalguy at 13:27, 29 January 2025

2025-01-29T13:27:28Z

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	Having trust in our fellow humans is essential to creating a [[culture]] of [[happiness]]. Creating a [[universal in-group]] is [[necessary]] to allow easy trust in a diverse, multicultural, connected world.		Having trust in our fellow humans is essential to creating a [[culture]] of [[happiness]]. Creating a [[universal in-group]] is [[necessary]] to allow easy trust in a diverse, multicultural, connected world.

	<blockquote>''"In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."'' -[[wikipedia:Eric_Schmidt\|Eric Schmidt]]</blockquote>How many people do you trust when you get on an airplane? Think about every person that researched, invented, built, inspected, maintained, and operates every component, and the systems and [[institutions]] of accountability incorporated into those processes to ensure that trust is earned and maintained. No matter how [[skeptical]] you are of the [[institutions]] of modernity, you put your trust in them every day by the thousands.		<blockquote>''"In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."'' -[[wikipedia:Eric_Schmidt\|Eric Schmidt]]</blockquote>How many people do you trust when you get on an airplane? Think about every person that researched, invented, built, inspected, maintained, and operates every component, and the systems and [[institutions]] of accountability incorporated into those processes to ensure that trust is earned and maintained.

			[https://philpeople.org/profiles/c-thi-nguyen C. Thi Nguyen] describes this as a "[[fractal]] chain of trust," since each component of the airplane relies on its own [[complex]] web of people and [[institutions]], each component of which has its own people and [[institutions]], all of whom you trust implicitly every time you fly.

			No matter how [[skeptical]] you are of the [[institutions]] of modernity, you put your trust in them every day by the thousands.

	== Trust in Institutions ==		== Trust in Institutions ==

Fractalguy: /* Trust the AI */

2025-01-27T14:41:31Z

Trust the AI

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	== Trust the AI ==		== Trust the AI ==
	The trustworthiness of [[artificial intelligence]] will be a huge issue in the near future, as many people will [[inevitably]] convey [[god]]-like authority to its answers, and not without some justification! People need to know where [[AI]] gets its training data, as well as transparency about the controls designed to prevent [[wikipedia:Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)\|hallucinations]] that result in [[misinformation]]. Being able to trust the [[god]]-like authority of [[AI]] is what makes it useful. If you have to check every answer, you might as well skip [[AI]] and go back to traditional search. To earn that trust, [[AI]] developers must choose transparency over proprietary [[technology]], which they have little [[incentive]] to do without [[regulation]].		The trustworthiness of [[artificial intelligence]] will be a huge issue in the near future, as many people will [[inevitably]] convey [[god]]-like [[authority]] to its answers, and not without some justification! People need to know where [[AI]] gets its training data, as well as transparency about the controls designed to prevent [[wikipedia:Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)\|hallucinations]] that result in [[misinformation]]. Being able to trust the [[god]]-like [[authority]] of [[AI]] is what makes it useful. If you have to check every answer, you might as well skip [[AI]] and go back to traditional search. To earn that trust, [[AI]] developers must choose transparency over proprietary [[technology]], which they have little [[incentive]] to do without [[regulation]].

	== Personal Trust ==		== Personal Trust ==

Fractalguy: /* Trust in Institutions */

2025-01-27T14:38:00Z

Trust in Institutions

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	The [[institutions]] themselves have done themselves no favors when it comes to keeping the public trust. There are many cases of corruption, [[wikipedia:Regulatory_capture\|regulatory capture]], [[grift]], perverse [[incentives]], and unintended [[consequences]] that have eroded that trust. However, these rarely represent [[Conspiracy theories\|conspiracies]]. Systemic issues caused by bad [[incentive]] structures, [[balance of power]], or lack of transparency and oversight can make it seem like there is a grand [[conspiracy]]. Really, it's just a process that makes serving the [[capitalists]] more [[Salience\|salient]] and rewarding than serving the public. Lacking [[free will]], the people who function in that system do what comes naturally.		The [[institutions]] themselves have done themselves no favors when it comes to keeping the public trust. There are many cases of corruption, [[wikipedia:Regulatory_capture\|regulatory capture]], [[grift]], perverse [[incentives]], and unintended [[consequences]] that have eroded that trust. However, these rarely represent [[Conspiracy theories\|conspiracies]]. Systemic issues caused by bad [[incentive]] structures, [[balance of power]], or lack of transparency and oversight can make it seem like there is a grand [[conspiracy]]. Really, it's just a process that makes serving the [[capitalists]] more [[Salience\|salient]] and rewarding than serving the public. Lacking [[free will]], the people who function in that system do what comes naturally.

	The only way to restore trust in [[institutions]] is to build in the necessary transparency and oversight, and [[educate]] the public on how and why those things work to ensure the [[institution]] serves its public mission. The education step is important, because many institutions actually have very good security and oversight, but lose the public trust because most people don't know why those things work. Modern election systems are a good example. The voter registration process makes fraudulent voting extremely difficult to perform on any scale without getting caught, but people don't understand [[wikipedia:Election_security\|why it works]].		The only way to restore trust in [[institutions]] is to build in the necessary transparency and oversight, and [[educate]] the public on how and why those things work to ensure the [[institution]] serves its public mission. The education step is important, because many institutions actually have very good security and oversight, but lose the public trust because most people don't know why those things work. Modern election systems are a good example. The voter registration process makes fraudulent voting extremely difficult to perform on any scale without getting caught, even without checking IDs, but people don't understand [[wikipedia:Election_security\|why it works]].

	== Trust in the Process ==		== Trust in the Process ==