I have written up a draft template post on the importance of trust within the community (and trust with others we might want to cooperate with in the future, eg. like the people who made that UN report on future generations mattering a tonne happen).
Let me know if you would like a link, anyone reading this is also very welcome to reach out!
Feedback to the draft content/points and also social accountability are very welcome.
A quick disclaimer: I don’t have a perfect historical track record of always doing the things I believe are important so there is some chance I won’t finish fleshing the post out or actually post it (though I’ve been pretty good at doing my very high priority things for the last couple of years and this seems reasonably likely to remain pretty high on my priority list until I post it)
I will write a couple more paragraphs on why I think this post might help as a reply to this comment.
I think a necessary condition to us keeping a lot of the amazing trust we have in this community is that we believe that that trust is valuable. I get that grifters are going to be an issue. I also think that grifters are going to have a much easier time if there isn’t a lot of openness and transparency within the movement.
Openness and transparency, like we’ve seen historically, seems only possible with high degrees of trust.
Posting a post on the importance of trust seems like a good starting point for getting people on board with the idea that doing the things that foster trust are worth doing (I think the things that foster trust tend to foster trust because they are good signals/can help us tell grifters and trustworthy people apart so I think this sort of thing hits two birds with one stone).
Yeah, I am also worried about this. I don’t have a great solution at the moment.
I have written up a draft template post on the importance of trust within the community (and trust with others we might want to cooperate with in the future, eg. like the people who made that UN report on future generations mattering a tonne happen).
Let me know if you would like a link, anyone reading this is also very welcome to reach out!
Feedback to the draft content/points and also social accountability are very welcome.
A quick disclaimer: I don’t have a perfect historical track record of always doing the things I believe are important so there is some chance I won’t finish fleshing the post out or actually post it (though I’ve been pretty good at doing my very high priority things for the last couple of years and this seems reasonably likely to remain pretty high on my priority list until I post it)
I will write a couple more paragraphs on why I think this post might help as a reply to this comment.
I think a necessary condition to us keeping a lot of the amazing trust we have in this community is that we believe that that trust is valuable. I get that grifters are going to be an issue. I also think that grifters are going to have a much easier time if there isn’t a lot of openness and transparency within the movement.
Openness and transparency, like we’ve seen historically, seems only possible with high degrees of trust.
Posting a post on the importance of trust seems like a good starting point for getting people on board with the idea that doing the things that foster trust are worth doing (I think the things that foster trust tend to foster trust because they are good signals/can help us tell grifters and trustworthy people apart so I think this sort of thing hits two birds with one stone).