Trust can be rationally pursued through codified as-if behavior

Evidence

Trust is a policy apt for conditions where knowledge is unavailable, as in the case of the free acts of another person (in Locke’s view) it will always remain. Trust does not have to be any more credulous or sentimental than the judgement of those who decide how to allocate it, though it will in practice, naturally, not be any less so either. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1197 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Credible commitment requires proof beyond mere assertion of intent.; Law substitutes for trust where trustworthiness fails against endgame incentives; Polite deception can actually build rather than undermine trust (+8 more)

Related

• Trust is a rational policy for conditions where knowledge is unavailable (similarity 0.88)
• Trust is a rational choice even for egoists, not a natural given (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is a policy adopted precisely where knowledge of future action is unavailable (similarity 0.86)
• Buber defines trust as ungrounded and thus excludes evidence-based trust (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is not chosen, a gamble, or an investment; only actions are (similarity 0.84)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.84)
• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is defined by the reason for expectation, not the expectation itself (similarity 0.83)
• Grounded trust cannot be selectively aimed without criteria for selection (similarity 0.83)
• Testing trust requires a concrete setting and visible relation to one’s own risk decisions (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is rational action taken despite uncontrolled exposure to loss (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is expectation formed before the other’s action can be monitored (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is a theory about another’s future performance based on their claims (similarity 0.83)
• Rational trust requires both trusted’s incentives and truster’s knowledge (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Actual trustworthiness combines motives that resist institutional mimicry #complicates (0.82)
• Extending trust can create the trustworthy behavior it presumes #corroborates (0.78)
• Trust is a rational policy for conditions where knowledge is unavailable #corroborates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1197
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms #exemplifies (0.72)
• Trusting is only knowledge; acting on trust is what carries risk #qualifies (0.72)