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Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice

Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice

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  • Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.84)
  • Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.82)
  • Trusting values depend crucially on the information each party holds (similarity 0.82)
  • Humans can recognize thousands while social worlds cater to the least clever (similarity 0.82)
  • Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.81)
  • Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information (similarity 0.80)
  • Parasitic cheating thrives where trust is generalized from trustworthy settings (similarity 0.80)
  • Trust grows out of the specific relationship between the parties (similarity 0.80)
  • Cooperation can operate independently of trust (similarity 0.80)
  • Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.80)
  • Representation and misrepresentation differ only by degree within a shared field of discourse. (similarity 0.80)
  • Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths (similarity 0.80)
  • Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.80)
  • Trust and trustworthiness are asymmetrical because only trusting carries significant risk of exploitation (similarity 0.80)
  • Trust is inductively corrigible by objective experience (similarity 0.80)

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  • Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority
  • Doctrine of a people's divine origin erased internal differences among its members
  • Humans can recognize thousands while social worlds cater to the least clever
  • Insiders take a society's basic structure for granted while outsiders judge it unfair.
  • Outsiders misconstrue tightly organized social groups as secret conspiracies.
  • Racism's universality rests on instinctive fear of the unknown from species history.
  • Social privilege blocks access to knowledge one is unequipped to understand.
  • Visible honesty signals are what keep cooperation stable in populations