humble3d Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Who can you trust ? How tech is reshaping what we believe We've lost faith in experts, but increasingly rely on strangers we meet online. Is it wise to replace long-evolved instincts at the click of a button? THE first thing Paul Zak bought on eBay was a pair of ice skates. They came with a handwritten note: “I hope your daughter enjoys these as much as my daughter did.” It made Zak’s day. As someone who studies the neurological basis of trust, Zak knew exactly what was going on. Feel-good chemicals had flooded his bloodstream, changing how he felt about a stranger over the internet. But that didn’t stop him leaving a shining review. Human interactions are built on trust. We trust others to hand over the goods when we pay them. We trust banks with our money and doctors with our lives. We trust governments to run our countries and newspapers to tell us how they are doing it. The more trust in a society, the better it fares. Put another way: without trust, society would collapse. But something strange is happening. Public trust in our institutions has plummeted in the past decade. Nearly half of people in the US mistrust lawmakers, according to a poll carried out in June. In the UK, fewer than 1 in 4 people trust the press. And yet we are putting more trust than ever before in people we meet on the internet. The sharing economy is booming. It is normal to invite strangers to sleep on our sofas, meet us for dates, pick us up in their cars and look after our pets. The internet has brought us to a tipping point, fundamentally changing who we trust and why. Technology allows us to make informed decisions and vet individuals. But should we really be letting our decisions be made by others ? https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631490-200-who-should-you-trust-how-tech-is-reshaping-what-we-believe/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 There is an old saying in the intelligence community, 'trust but verify.' People trusted the New York Times until it was proven that its 'news' couldn't be verified. The same with other publications. And now we know that the Democratic Party was behind the Trump Dossier and used funds illegally from Hillary's election fund. Trusted and then verified as political trash. And we also know that the IRS targeted conservative tea party groups under the Obama administration. Trusted and then verified that the IRS lied for years. So trust and verify, and when you can't verify the data then you no longer trust the source. In reality we practice verify then trust, in other words, if you can't independently verify something then don't trust it at all. And new players in any thing are never to be trusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pc71520 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 On 26/10/2017 at 6:50 PM, humble3d said: Who can you Trust? Trust NO One. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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