I am not sure if the unified “trust”, let alone “transitive trust” makes sense. People can be experts on something, and uninformed about something else. There are people I trust in the sense “they wouldn’t stab me in the back”, but I do not trust their trust in homeopathics or Jesus. In context of LessWrong, I would hate to see my upvotes of someone’s articles on math translated as my indirect support of Buddhism.
I am not sure if the unified “trust”, let alone “transitive trust” makes sense. People can be experts on something, and uninformed about something else. There are people I trust in the sense “they wouldn’t stab me in the back”, but I do not trust their trust in homeopathics or Jesus. In context of LessWrong, I would hate to see my upvotes of someone’s articles on math translated as my indirect support of Buddhism.