Concept
Design principle for integration institutions: build for institutions that work even when trust is partially eroded, not for institutions that require trust to be complete. The polarization-via-distrust trap from Ch 9 means evidence channels get filtered out by communities that distrust the source — so the integration infrastructure has to do its work across trust boundaries that will not be repaired in advance. Properties: decision provenance auditable by skeptics; reputation systems whose underlying signal survives partial distrust in the aggregator; versatile experts inhabiting the institution rather than presiding over it; multiple independent decision pathways for the same question (route around capture, get Zollman-effect accuracy benefits as a bonus). Wikipedia’s edit history, common-law jurisdictional variation, replicated lab results are existing partial implementations.
Connections
- Defined in: Infrastructure for Integration
- Discussed in: Ch 12 — Infrastructure for Integration, Ch 9 — The Integration Problem
- In tension with: Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical of Pope Leo XIV)
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