Trust does not emerge naturally because humans tend toward extremes rather than fine-tuning

Evidence

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 Hardin argument that trust requires constructed constraints, since natural emergence is unjustified. — connects to: Fine-grained discrimination of whom to trust limits the role of noncognitive trust.; Extreme default rates express both scarce trust and high trust value; Humans can intentionally choose trust rather than inherit it as a by-product of evolution — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2821
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2811

Broader Connections

• Humans can intentionally choose trust rather than inherit it as a by-product of evolution #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2821