Knowledge Problem

Futurepundit On Trust

Lynne Kiesling

Randall Parker has one of his typically lucid and informative posts on the oxytocin and trust research to which I pointed yesterday. Note also that his focus, and the focus of his commenters, is unlike mine in that it’s much more on how to use this research to come up with new drugs, whereas I think it’s more valuable to use this research to inform our understanding of why and how we can overcome our innate distrust of strangers to ever even achieve impersonal exchange.