There are three layers (or processes) that lead to knowledge-based trust in an individual.
1. Our understanding of the symmetry (or lack of) of the relationship. This helps determines the flow of power and the loss/gain proposition if things do not work out.
2. An awareness of context upon which we better understand intent and motivation. Without context everything becomes theoretical and trust becomes a product of hope rather than calculation.
3. The knowledge we have of the world and its working, which then allows us to better understand context and more accurately determine symmetry.
Trust is the final by-product of all this. Here's the thing, all of this which we can calculate in microseconds in most given situations, are also machine-calculable in an algorithmic trust score that can determine the trustworthiness of a source of data and, by inference, the veracity of the data itself.
In search this becomes problematic only at the immense scale of the web. It is a temporary problem that becomes smaller as the trust scores of the agents within the wider web and the relational subsets that make it up, becomes better known.
1. Our understanding of the symmetry (or lack of) of the relationship. This helps determines the flow of power and the loss/gain proposition if things do not work out.
2. An awareness of context upon which we better understand intent and motivation. Without context everything becomes theoretical and trust becomes a product of hope rather than calculation.
3. The knowledge we have of the world and its working, which then allows us to better understand context and more accurately determine symmetry.
Trust is the final by-product of all this. Here's the thing, all of this which we can calculate in microseconds in most given situations, are also machine-calculable in an algorithmic trust score that can determine the trustworthiness of a source of data and, by inference, the veracity of the data itself.
In search this becomes problematic only at the immense scale of the web. It is a temporary problem that becomes smaller as the trust scores of the agents within the wider web and the relational subsets that make it up, becomes better known.
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