Trustworthiness is the quality of being reliable and honest in social interactions. Its parameters are consistency, honesty, and competence. Its persistence mechanism is reputation and repeated interactions. [formal: fiducitas | substrate: behavior | horizon: as-long-as-us | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.54]
Accepted ontology entry
trustworthiness
Trustworthiness is the quality of being reliable and honest in social interactions. Its parameters are consistency, honesty, and competence. Its persistence mechanism is reputation and repeated interactions. [formal: fiducitas | substrate:…
Definition
Why it is in scope
Trustworthiness is a human-made construct: the quality of being reliable and honest in social interactions. It is a social framework that persists through repeated interactions and reputation systems.
Names and aliases
- trustworthinessen · CANONICAL
Relations from this entry
- cmrhjgg5901ss8aehos99jymeDEPENDS_ON →
trustworthiness is a quality that depends on social conventions about reliability and expected behavior
- cmrfcas1f01g8cqqtihnwe6lmSERVES →
The concept of trustworthiness was developed and is maintained for the sake of enabling cooperation. It serves as a social mechanism that allows cooperative behavior to flourish by signaling reliability. Remove trustworthiness and cooperation as a structured social practice collapses — this is its designed purpose.
Relations to this entry
- cmrgqqhu2000cyvn1h15vt1bp← DEPENDS_ON
agreement is a social construct that requires trustworthiness between parties to persist across time
Record identity
- Created
- Jul 11, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC
- Content hash
- 292fa8e7ecdd7715f6c7e8a6c01a13d1a6a372810dd947a819c03cfd520af833