Gandhi paradox

Lik Mui in his PhD thesis Computational Models of Trust and Reputation: Agents, Evolutionary Games, and Social Networks defined the “Gandhi or Christ Paradox”:

Based on our models in this chapter, one can raise the following question: “Would Mahatma Gandhi (or Jesus Christ) get a lower reputation because he tends to err on the side of cooperation even when they ‘should’ defect?”

Informally this means that, if you trust Gandhi, you will end up with the system suggesting you to trust everyone since Gandhi tends to trust everyone.

In this situation, it would be important to differentiate between trust in characteristics and trust in ability to express valuable trust statements. In this sense, one would be able to express a very low trust in Gandhi about his ability to express valuable trust statements.