[nostrebored]

I've lived in low information trust societies, and they were much intellectually healthier than high trust societies, at least in the white collar communities I was in.

Moving there, I was shocked at how "conspiratorial" everybody seemed about everything. Living there, I was shocked out how often they were right. But it didn't impact people's likelihood to do things. I think they are actually orthogonal in a way that is unintuitive.