My own.

It's cliché but listening to my gut typically works out

On what?
Different people have different bodies of knowledge and experience. Their expertise on one question doesn't transfer to another.

Honestly, it depends on what we're talking about

I trust my nerd friend's opinions on computers, and I trust my car friend's opinions on cars, but probably not so much the other way around.

No single person knows everything, and trusting any single person completely about everything is foolish.

My spouse's.

David Attenborough's.

I trust the opinions of open minded and wise scientists the most. The people that should IMO have been our leaders instead of self serving politicians.

Hank Green, and Alec from Technology Connections. Wildly different energy levels, but broadly speaking I trust them to do their homework or to outright say they haven’t.

No one’s. Not even mine. Everyone is an idiot. Especially me.

Greta Thunberg

That OP always has an agenda. Doesn't matter which OP but there is always one.

I don't trust anyone's opinion unless it's based on sound evidence and repeatable results and even then, I'll only trust the opinions of those who are willing to change their opinion based on new knowledge. So, given that, I'll trust my young kids opinions on things they have researched and learnt about, or a doctor's opinion if it's on something they're knowledgeable about, and my own in areas where I'm an expert.

How MUCH I trust them is a different thing. If it's something that doesn't really affect me if it's not 100% accurate....meh

I trust no one.

In general my brother. He has schooling equivalent to my own and we both have interests and specialties that can converge a bit but also complement each other. Basically I like to discuss things with him because he both can get things im talking about but also may have a perspective or knowledge beyond my own. I think he feels the same but who knows. He seems to call me to talk about things as much as I call him.

My wife mostly. Followed by myself.

Yours

Mine. Unless my partner or best friend heavily disagree, then I know it's probably not right.

Joe's

Only 3 people i dont know whos opinions ive actually trusted.

www.penny-arcade.com guy

Yahtzee but I think hes stopped doing his thing

Jonathan Pie - spoof news reporter who goes on rants at the cameraman between takes.

All 3 of these people have almost exactly the same opinions on things I already know about and think I understand. I trust them enough to have the right opinion on stuff I dont.

Obviously I don't agree with anybody on 100% of all things, but if I had to throw out some of who I sarcastically call my personal philosopher kings:

• Cordelia Fine
• Philip N. Cohen
• Ella Yurman, YouTube
• Noam Chomsky
• Big Joel, YouTube

Carl Sagan

not my mom's

Family

My wife

I don't trust opinions, just facts.

1. Anthropic Claude
2. Google Gemini
3. ChatGPT
4. Perplexity

Edit: in that order.

If I had to pick an "intellectual hero" of mine, it would be Sam Harris. It's not so much that I trust his opinions but I trust his thinking process. I can't think of anyone else I pay so much attention to while finding so little to disagree with.

I bet that, considering the platform I'm at, if someone recognizes the name they almost definitely don't like the guy. If you want to discuss that then I'm willing to for as long as you can be civil about it.