paulfchristiano comments on In the presence of disinformation, collective epistemology requires local modeling

[paulfchristiano]

I’m on board with the paragraph you quoted.

I’m objecting to:

Try to make information and models common knowledge among a group when possible, so they can be integrated into a canonical perspective. This allows the group to build on this, rather than having to re-derive or re-state it repeatedly.

and:

This can result in a question being definitively settled, which is great for the group’s ability to reliably get the right answer to the question, rather than having a range of “acceptable” answers that will be chosen from based on factors other than accuracy.