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Re: on the nature of trust

To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: on the nature of trust
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@laser.cps.softex.br>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:44:22 -0200 (EDT)
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xcert.com>, Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980213153933.19712A-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Simon Spero wrote:

-> Hmm - what about if we factor in the percieved value of trusting someone
-> for a specific purpose; we then trust someone for some purpose if the
-> probability of the their actually being trustworthy times the value of
-> trusting is greater than the probability of their not being trustworthy
-> times the cost of misplaced trust.

;-) that only happens if the events are independent and if they are
representable by a PDF.

Neither happens here.

Cheers,

Ed
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Re: on the nature of trust

From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>

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