[taeric]

This is silly. When looking at the ratings for your doctor, do you look up the rating of the raters?

The point isn't that you have to trust everything. The point is that trust underpins everything. At some level, you are trusting something.

[wyager]

> do you look up the rating of the raters?

Obviously. Most rating sites are scams. There might not be a formal meta-rather, but I can use eg reddit.

[taeric]

In that, you are still trusting that the system you have devised had not been successfully gamed or hacked by an adversary. For that matter, you may just be trusting that you don't have an adversary.

The rabbit hole runs stupid deep.