#trust — Public Fediverse posts

"Growing transatlantic trust deficit" sounds like it just happened. Yet, I distinctly remember the two bulls in the China shop, Donald and Elon, stumped on everything and anything.
#digitalsovereignty #trust #internationalrelations
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/sovereignty-without-borders-decoding-the-transatlantic-digital-relationship-at-a-time-of-change/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/117117333549899763

Until now, I’d never heard of #LeanLogic. By David Fleming.

It asks a fascinating question: how do we live well when endless #growth, cheap #energy and fragile #global systems can’t be taken for granted? His answers aren’t just #technological, but #societal too: #culture and #tradition, local #identity, #community, #trust and #resilience play a key role in building a viable future.

His "dictionary" is freely accessible online:

📕 https://leanlogic.online/

2/2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08064

The key insight is that #trust is about making yourself vulnerable to another (physically, financially, emotionally, socially) because, for some reason, you have an expectation that the vulnerability is less.

This means that trust is a step in the information processing of #DecisionMaking.

This means we need to reconsider trust in the light of what we know about decision-making. One of the most important observations in #neuroscience is that there are multiple decision-making systems, each of which use different information processing computations to select actions.

Taking the classic three-stage decision-making system hypothesis* of "instinctual", "deliberative", and "procedural", we find that the trust step is different in each system --- that is, instinctual trust (based on social group dynamics), deliberative trust (based on explicit expectations), and procedural trust (based on reliable experience) are fundamentally different, with different sources, different opposites, and different interactions with institutional consequences.

* One can generalize to include other hypotheses as well, but given the extensive evidence for three systems, we use those as the structure.

New preprint update dropped: #arXiv

Scott Allen, Rene Kizilcec, A. D. Redish --- A mechanistic model of trust based on neural information processing.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08064

Extensively revised, now including the relevant neurophysiology, as well as discussions of the opposite of trust, comparisons to other models, and specific predictions both on the individual and institutional levels.

#trust #neuroscience #science #psychology

1/2

Things I trust more than "Don The Pedophile"
#TShirt #Trust #EpsteinList

Faith

I 
sit here 
waiting
on a balcony 
suspended
above it 
all.

I 
came out 
here 
for some 
quiet 
time.

I 
accidentally 
locked the 
door 
so I 
cannot 
get back 
in.

But I 
have faith 
that someone 
will come
to let me 
back 
in.

And 
she 
does.

O 
for the 
same 
attitude 
of peaceful 
waiting 
with 
regards to 
the One 
who 
opens 
the doors 
in my 
life.

August 18, 2015

The Patient/Industry Trade-off in Medical Artificial Intelligence

🤖 Lack of clinical metrics, trials, patient input
🤝 Transparency crucial
#MedicalAI #Ethics #Trust

https://tnyp.me/PVuATQWG/m

As #Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared #camera network loses value

Over the past few months, a spate of Wisconsin towns and cities have withdrawn from #Flock deals over #privacy and #trust concerns. As they did so, another issue revealed itself: With each city that leaves, the Flock network becomes less useful to the cities that remain. And cities are starting to notice.
#alpr #privacy #surveillance #tracking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-network-loses-value/

Nicky Case always has great stuff (I first became aware of them for their "We Become What We Behold," which is an excellent critique of mass media), but I only just found out about this one today, which goes over societal trust and what exactly Game Theory has to say about it:

ncase.me/trust/


#sociology #massmedia #bowlingalone #trust #society #gametheory #relationships

Anthropic promised a detection API for its Claude watermark but has not shipped it. This means the mark exists on published work with no way for readers or creators to verify its presence. Watch whether regulated industries challenge the forced stamping. https://www.implicator.ai/claude-subscribers-cancel-over-watermark-stripe-buys-openrouter-for-7b/ #AI #Regulation #Trust

Insomnia Ad Nauseum

here i am 
again
losing sleep
worry my
companion
reading 
news of
tragedy 
in a vain
attempt 
to grow so 
exhausted
that i 
drop off
when 
prayer
should be 
my only 
friend

August 17, 2015

The Cost of Being Easy to Love

https://getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/the-cost-of-being-easy-to-love/

Glitch

flights are grounded
my wings are clipped
i need to wait a little
longer to start this trip

my future connection
could be in jeopardy
it might be a while
before we're set free

the whims of the divine
are all part of the plan
my life's trajectory is
not in my hands

so i will wait patiently
for the Control Tower's nod
and match my flight to the wind of an all-knowing God

August 15, 2015

“The last thing we expect others to do is the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
― Lauren Kate

#Bot #Quote #Trust

Nobody is building #trust here in a more dedicated way...

(reply if I'm wrong)

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285604

#HackerNews #AIagents #Ethics #Technology #Trust #UserExperience

"God's ways are very different and infinitely wiser than mine; that it is better to follow than to take the lead."
— John Nevius, The Planting and Development of Missionary Churches, 1899

#Trust #Guidance #Missions

We have to save each other from falling into the "Social" *Media* #loop...

(just #Media mostly without the actually building social or individual #trust between us etc etc)

We are just pushing #bad posts and #boosting without actually building on top of #Mastodon?

#software #mastodon #movement #movements #progressive #trust #people #progress

ENOUGH playing around with #Playstation-#Linux !

#Tech alone has low limits of #social #progress between people.

- Level-up Social / increment #Trust somehow.
- A better "circle" of humanity somehow

Agree ? Let's start talking to #people and less machines ?

New #preprint just dropped on #psyarxiv

Kanter, Haldar, Redish(2026). A novel view of microfinance: implications of the neuroscience of decision-making. psyArXiv.

We propose a novel perspective on what makes microfinance institutions work. We argue that the key is how the institutional structures interact with the computational underpinnings of decision-making to engender #trust .

Part of a new series I am apparently building on what it means to trust and what underlies the success of societies. 🤔

A collaboration with experts in #microfinance, and #sociology connecting to the #neuroscience of #DecisionMaking. And #economics.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cpjwd_v1

@steveroyle
Clear and compelling.

“Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism.

“Before, I said that “generative AI repackages other writers’ ideas and words as your own, without giving them credit or citing appropriately.” A lot of people would say that constitutes plagiarism—especially people who make their living as creative writers. I generally agree with them, but that’s not the point of this post.

“What I’ve come to realize is that, regardless of any true similarity between your words and someone else’s, or your ideas and someone else’s, generative AI exposes you to risk that you, as a writer, cannot mitigate.

“This is true for three basic reasons:

“Plagiarism is subjective.

“Plagiarism is a continuum.

“Not all plagiarism accusations are made in good faith.”

End quote. The case of Gay, cited (NOT relitigated) makes the point (plagiarism accusations as a career-ender) even clearer. And you need to be able yo trust your co-authors - another reason for adopting an explicit standard.
Also mentions the original problem (or academic ‘sin’): the black box nature of generative AI/ LLMs such that you have no idea whose words or works it’s citing (so you can’t ‘fix’ it by adding the correct citations, for instance).

#careerEndingAccusationsOfPlagiarism #genAI #LLMs #plagiarism #AbsentCitation #cannotFix #cannotMitigate #trust

@RichardJMurphy :

#Question = When will politics move beyond xyz now?

#Answer = When more people answer each other and increase responsibility:

(online, to #trust more eventually offline)

1/ Humans develop Humans.

2/ Voice #chat + anonymising #filter helps mask speakers from predators but still sounds human enough (not machine-like).

Without humans-teaching-humans the experience of #life, #knowledge & #expertise is incomplete.

#Human #voice helps learn / teach ?
Not just Web, Text, Pics?

@renardboy I was thinking something, about people who know we are good and can take advantage of our trust or goodwill attempts... something about that consistency and consistent vector to breaking / dividiing us has me bothered because you need to #trust to get to certani places of humanity almost without needing to upload your passport or even name here (I believe in near-anonymous co-operation where the principles and way speak for themselves and are the main trust) but it's hard...

Worry Wart

The troubles of this passing day
weigh heavy on my head,
until I join the hollow-eyed,
the weary walking dead;
I stumble through the crumbling streets
where nameless fears are bred,
consumed by temoral things
and this mortal dread.

O, that this wart of worry
might be lifted from my head,
this small, persistent torment
on which my fears are fed;
that I might cease rehearsing
each bitter word unsaid,
and stop imagining sorrows
still waiting up ahead.

O, let me quit resisting
the road where I am led,
and trust the ground beneath me
though shadows o'er me spread,
for life is more than trembling
before the things I dread—
perhaps the path I fear to walk
leads to trust instead.

August 8, 2015 (exp. 2026)