Bounded Distrust

On deciding when to trust an not-completely-trustworthy source, which is almost all of them (experts, journalism, management, politician...).

• individuals are bad, institutions are even worse
• cf Nature Of Truth
• cf reading the tea leaves, kremlinology, mind-reading

Scott Alexander: (2022-01-26) Alexander Bounded Distrust

Zvi Mowshowitz: (2022-02-13) ZviM On Bounded Distrust - this is much better than Alexander's piece, read the whole original