DeFi Trust Law: Vitalik's Trust Model Is Questionable, Fails to Consider metaTrust Issues

In a recent article, Vitalik Buterin provided an interesting analysis of trust. While I believe his article is a good starting point for discussion, I am skeptical of his definition of trust and his views on the future of trust. What is Trust? According to Vitalik's introduction, we should understand trust as follows (we will call Vitalik's view of trust vTrust). vTrust holds that: trust is the use of any assumptions about others' behavior.