Trust cannot be assumed to emerge naturally in human interaction

Evidence

Yet there is no reason why the appropriate conditional beliefs should typically be the case, and the optimal move may be hard to come upon by accident (while we may not want to have to wait for it to come upon us). If it is true that humans are characterized by a lack of fine-tuning and a tendency to go to extremes (Elster 1983), the assumption that trust will emerge naturally is singularly unjustified. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2811

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s central thesis on Saramago’s Blindness — when sight collapses, conditional-trust mechanisms vanish, and extreme behavior (Elster’s fine-tuning lack) fills the void. This is the theoretical substrate for why the doctor’s wife’s observability becomes the sole constraint. — connects to: Good intentions fail without social forms to express them — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 763
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Elster 1983 — which work and does it offer a concrete account of this ‘lack of fine-tuning’ that would strengthen the Luhmann/Hardin synthesis?