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I can't accept this strange definitional divide between interpersonal trust and social trust. Trust is an infinitely grey experience, and varies situation to si
by stickfigure 9mo ago
I can't accept this strange definitional divide between interpersonal trust and social trust. Trust is an infinitely grey experience, and varies situation to situation and time to time.
Trust is just a word we use to describe how confident we are that the future will correspond to our expectations. Friends can lose the money you gave them to buy something, credit card machines can fail, AIs can order you the wrong product, I could get in a car accident on the way to the store. Do I "trust" that these schemes will go smoothly? Well, mostly (except the AI one).
I don't see a category error because there aren't categories here.
- sdwr 9mo agoIt's absolutely the correct distinction to draw. AI will be able to present as a person while behaving as a system. We don't have intuitions for dealing with that.
- stickfigure 9mo agoRubbish. Humans behave just as erratically as systems. Maybe the problem is that you have the wrong intuitions about humans?
- sdwr 9mo agoAn AI "friend bot" could talk like an individual, but be controlled by a network that is making global decisions - what if one of its goals is reducing social unrest by undermining the confidence of users with certain political views? What if the network is 25% owned by China, or by Chevron? What if it's perfectly benevolent, but still choosing what to tell you based on its strategy?
- pavon 9mo agoJust because something is distributed over a spectrum and not clumped into clean distinct boxes doesn't decrease the utility of discussing the properties of different areas of the spectrum.
- stickfigure 9mo agoThere aren't "different areas of the spectrum". There are plenty of humans less trustworthy than LLMs in various contexts.