Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread glen
Steve Smith wrote at 08/19/2013 03:42 PM: The circularity is critical in my opinion, to understanding how we actually interact with each other. Our models of stereotypical individuals (e.g. Limbaugh, Penrose, Guerin) do not invoke this so clearly as our more personal relations. The regression

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread mar...@snoutfarm.com
Some further distinctions: TT1 has a trivial prescriptive form: Employees receive guidance, and trusted employees are just those that comply with it. Or citizens learn the laws, and follow them. A remark about TT3 relates to your criticism of (non-prescriptive) universality in TT1. Putting on

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Smith
Glen - I *knew* I could trust you to respond in this manner ;) . I will restate my implied claim that trust based on empathy is qualitatively different than other types of trust. Empathetic trust broken is betrayal, other types of trust broken is just bad judgement or bad luck? Now

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread glen
mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote at 08/20/2013 09:47 AM: Some further distinctions: TT1 has a trivial prescriptive form: Employees receive guidance, and trusted employees are just those that comply with it. Or citizens learn the laws, and follow them. Ideally, yes. But practice is never ideal.

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Smith
Grin... I wonder how TT1-5 line up with the larger literature on the topic of trust... seems like a topic for evolutionary psychologists (Nick, et al?). - Steve PS. Some may be satisfied to note my preference for empathic to empathetic in the following reference:

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread glen
Steve Smith wrote at 08/20/2013 10:13 AM: Empathetic trust is not about Truth, but about Belief. When I have empathetic trust with someone, I trust that I understand what they believe, not how close they are to an imagined (or declared?) absolute Truth. [...] Once again, my use of the term

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 8/20/13 2:36 PM, glen wrote: I'd also introduce other sort of trust: investment risk reduction, or TT5. e.g. institution of marriage/child-bearing, shared secret or stigmatized behaviors, e.g. historically the LGBT community, criminal enterprises, intelligence community, and so on. I don't

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote: In the case of mobsters, they know that they are criminals and risk punishment if they don't protect each other and their information. In relevant situations, individuals in such groups can predict, in a positive

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 8/20/13 2:36 PM, glen wrote: You've given us a nice set of bounding concepts from which we might define a Truth {clever, consistent, elegant, purposeful/non-clumsy, appropriate-to-context}. The question is whether or not this set of ascriptors can lead to something transpersonal. Rather

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus - On 8/20/13 2:36 PM, glen wrote: You've given us a nice set of bounding concepts from which we might define a Truth {clever, consistent, elegant, purposeful/non-clumsy, appropriate-to-context}. The question is whether or not this set of ascriptors can lead to something transpersonal.

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 8/20/13 8:18 PM, Steve Smith wrote: This sounds a lot like the problem of verifying computer-generated proofs like the early example of the 4 color problem. It might be almost good enough to be able to verify each step of the proof and the logic that it all hangs together with, even if no

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 8/20/13 9:02 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 8/20/13 8:18 PM, Steve Smith wrote: This sounds a lot like the problem of verifying computer-generated proofs like the early example of the 4 color problem. It might be almost good enough to be able to verify each step of the proof and the

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus This sounds a lot like the problem of verifying computer-generated proofs like the early example of the 4 color problem. It might be almost good enough to be able to verify each step of the proof and the logic that it all hangs together with, even if no human can claim to actually