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22 Nov 2009 04:48 pm
In Whom We Trust?
Clay Shirky ponders trust on the web:
Authority...performs a dual function; looking to authorities is a
way of increasing the likelihood of being right, and of reducing the
penalty for being wrong. An authoritative source isn’t just a source
you trust; it’s a source you and other members of your reference group
trust together. This is the non-lawyer’s version of “due diligence”;
it’s impossible to be right all the time, but it’s much better to be
wrong on good authority than otherwise, because if you’re wrong on good
authority, it’s not your fault.
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