Interpersonal trust is like the strong nuclear force. It only extends to 1-2 transitive degrees defining a "nuclear" family of sorts. Impersonal institutional trust is more like gravity and not based on social graph transitivity at all.
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So, you're saying that trust works at single and dual degrees of separation, but breaks down at paucal degrees.
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Yup it’s a paucal degree phenomenon
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Have you just described blockchain?
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Transitivty of trust needs a decay factor, otherwise it doesn’t line up with our instincts at all. I trust a friend of a friend less than that first friend.
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I can imagine corporate branding practices & virtue capitalism clogging up the transitive trust bandwidth between individuals.
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