Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
Aug 18, 2013; 12:00am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-Laura-Poitras-Helped-Snowden-Spill-His-Secrets-NYTimes-com-tp7583618p7583668.html
On 8/17/13 5:40 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> I would say I "trust" people more who I believe to have an empathic
> response to me, and in general I believe that this is a resonant
> phenomena, that those whom I am empathetic with, are also more
> empathetic with me, etc.
A third definition of "trust" is that, whenever something seems "high
variance" for the model of the individual, that it can explained
directly or indirectly by the trusted person. That there will be an
interesting self-consistent explanation or argument that is somehow more
penetrating for a new situation that merely being consistent with a
previous situation. That person's values may change or evolve -- they
are not superficially consistent -- but you can be sure their function
applied to those values will be an informative or even novel result.
One can trust that their time is not being wasted.
Marcus
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