Upon reflection, the only way this would work is if verification were easier than deception, so to speak. It’s not obvious that this is the case. Among humans, for instance, it seems very difficult for a more intelligent person to tell, in the general case, whether a less intelligent person is lying or telling the truth (unless the verifier is equipped with more resources and can collect evidence and so on, which is very difficult to do about some topics such as the verified’s internal state) so, in the case of humans, in general, deception seems easier than verification.
So perhapst the daisy-chain only travels down the intelligence scale, not up.
Upon reflection, the only way this would work is if verification were easier than deception, so to speak. It’s not obvious that this is the case. Among humans, for instance, it seems very difficult for a more intelligent person to tell, in the general case, whether a less intelligent person is lying or telling the truth (unless the verifier is equipped with more resources and can collect evidence and so on, which is very difficult to do about some topics such as the verified’s internal state) so, in the case of humans, in general, deception seems easier than verification.
So perhapst the daisy-chain only travels down the intelligence scale, not up.