2026-03-10

# In-person beats online, for trust building

Disclaimer
 - **Quick Note**

Main
 - I have a lot of anecdotal data points saying people trust me more or believe my ASI risk views more, when they meet me in-person, as opposed to when they meet me online on a video call or (worse) engage in text back and forth.
 - Just found this in [Gwern's open questions](https://gwern.net/question) that also agrees:

> Face-to-face meetings, even brief ones, appear to cement personal connections of trust and liking to an extent not achieved by even years of more mediated contact like phone calls or Internet text discussions / emails / chat; this appears to be true in almost every context, even ones like British inventors meeting their heroes (in a different field) just once, with large step functions in connections despite the apparent near-zero marginal information conveyed by a brief physical visit after long-term interactions & track records.