“Trust”, as the word is typically used, is a… weird concept, to me. Like, it’s trying to carve the world in a way which I don’t naturally carve it myself. This post is my attempt to convey what I find weird about “trust”, and what adjacent concepts I personally find more natural instead.
This is completely beside the point of the post, but it accidentally connects John’s old post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4kJTjAPrGcimfpKhj/on-trust
and more recent posts like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hds7xkLgYtm6qDGPS/how-i-learned-that-i-don-t-feel-companionate-love