First of all, I painted it as very binary in the post, but obviously it’s really a sliding scale. But still, things that would warrant a significant shift towards low-trust in my opinion:
Significant un-corrected corruption, e.g. major grants given to clearly worse projects without plausible justification.
Abuse of power, e.g. EVF forcing sub-orgs to take positions they disagreed with under legal threat.
Widespread behaviour out of line with our values, e.g. lying to people systematically
To be honest, even then I would probably just consider the specific organisation where this happened to be suspect. We can recover from that: disband or de-emphasize the org, try again. It would take quite a lot of this for me to stop trusting the community in general.
Nice post! One question: what are some things that could happen that you would view as requiring a move to low-trust?
Great question!
First of all, I painted it as very binary in the post, but obviously it’s really a sliding scale. But still, things that would warrant a significant shift towards low-trust in my opinion:
Significant un-corrected corruption, e.g. major grants given to clearly worse projects without plausible justification.
Abuse of power, e.g. EVF forcing sub-orgs to take positions they disagreed with under legal threat.
Widespread behaviour out of line with our values, e.g. lying to people systematically
To be honest, even then I would probably just consider the specific organisation where this happened to be suspect. We can recover from that: disband or de-emphasize the org, try again. It would take quite a lot of this for me to stop trusting the community in general.