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This. Nobody is 100% trustworthy in every circumstance. When I say I trust someone, what I mean is that I have a good handle on what sorts of things that person can be trusted about, and what sorts of things they can't.


Exactly - you have a reasonable model of a person. So it also includes things like a recommendations giving you the _opposite_ of the purported opinion. Or trusting the details are technically true, but missing the forest for the trees. Or any other contextual interpretation of the data.


I'm sure everyone says that about themselves. It doesn't work out like that though.


I know many people I like very much… but would never trust their judgment.




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