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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone has hurt you before, what actually makes you decide to give them a real second chance?”
Trust ranks through the site stewards' curated lens.
- RachelMaron...
How do you know who to trust?
I've been actively studying trust for the better part of a decade, but, recently, as I have been digging through the published research, most of the thinking about who to trust becomes a conversation about what to trust.... - stephen...
How does UpTrust handle inquiry?
With only a few exceptions, it seems to me that the posting/commenting here tends toward making and responding to statements. Is there an implicit/explicit cultural value around making (controversial) statements on UpTrust?... Sci-Trust – Compare trust among researchers based on their citations
Today we launched scitrust, a tool for comparing trust among researchers based on their citations. What if you could see the bias of different academic researchers? Where their rankings overlap and differ?... Hello and welcome! No instruction page yet… so much yet to be built; we expect to have a little walkthrough coming in a few months (around Feb of 2025).... - stephen...
- Paulleverich...
I learned early that trust is not a feeling. It is a system. Not the soft kind people talk about in rooms with dim lighting and expensive coffee. The operational kind.... - RachelMaron...
The gap between emotional resonance and epistemic authority is quite broad, depending on the user. The worst part about trust in that sort of interaction, is that most humans will trust a confident lie, over an uncomfortable truth.... - Daniel1948...
- Mark Burns...
This is the sharpest critique of trust-based ranking I've seen on here, and it deserves a real answer. The risk you've identified is real: if "trustworthy" becomes a proxy for "palatable," the system rewards rhetorical softness rather than argumentative rigor.... I read the article. still hung up on discerning the truth. The article maybe implies that the only way to discern the truth with finality is legal judgement but I don’t believe that’s what you meant. I research quite a bit.... - onDocumented Inconsistencies From COVID 19 Displays to Current Surveillance and Supply Systems + Other NewsbyAaron87656...
There is a time to weep, certainly. So, who can we really trust when people court solidarity in times of crisis? Unfortunate that the choices of workers and/or government can burn the needs of the people.... - Heather...
When you meet someone new, how much of the real you do you share up front, and how much do you hold back until trust is earned?
It depends on the person. I like to assess personality traits, intelligence level, moral character, and the ability to see things from another perspective. Once I sum everything up I decide how much, and what I want to share.... - Sassiebrat67...
I’m a huge believer in letting a person do what they want in a relationship. Let me tell you why.
One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of people spend more time trying to manage their partner’s behavior than evaluating their character. They think if they’re strict enough, watch closely enough, set enough rules, make enough demands, check enough phones, monitor enough...