Trust is still a decision in reality, but the idea that people can
be "forced to trust" is out there amongst sociopathic devs and
big-tech.
Also the trust-cost curve is discontinuous. For free (as in beer)
Free Open Source software trust is very high. And for expensive
commercial products (like business-grade video displays instead of
consumer "smart TV"), trust is very high. It in the low-end consumer
grade products and "free" cloud services like gmail where trust is
lowest - because all the money is made by screwing you out of data
and control.
> The conversation shifts into a question of how can we decide what to trust and where. It’s a very strange problem we experience now.
This was the most interesting part of the discussion.
In light of the principle agent problem and the extraordinary perverse incentives that infect all commercial software now here's my take;
https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/cybershow-ken-tompson-tr...
Trust is still a decision in reality, but the idea that people can be "forced to trust" is out there amongst sociopathic devs and big-tech.
Also the trust-cost curve is discontinuous. For free (as in beer) Free Open Source software trust is very high. And for expensive commercial products (like business-grade video displays instead of consumer "smart TV"), trust is very high. It in the low-end consumer grade products and "free" cloud services like gmail where trust is lowest - because all the money is made by screwing you out of data and control.