It’s not clear to me that there’s any more “lack of epistemic hygeine” in Zack’s posts than in anyone else’s, yours (and mine) included. If the claim here is that Zack exhibits significantly less epistemic hygeine than… who? You? The average Less Wrong commenter? Either way, it does not seem plausible to me. In most of the cases where you’ve claimed him to be something like “loudly + overconfidently + rudely wrong”, it has always seemed to me that, at best, there was nothing more than a case of “reasonable people might disagree on this one”.
It’s not clear to me that there’s any more “lack of epistemic hygeine” in Zack’s posts than in anyone else’s, yours (and mine) included. If the claim here is that Zack exhibits significantly less epistemic hygeine than… who? You? The average Less Wrong commenter? Either way, it does not seem plausible to me. In most of the cases where you’ve claimed him to be something like “loudly + overconfidently + rudely wrong”, it has always seemed to me that, at best, there was nothing more than a case of “reasonable people might disagree on this one”.
Do you disagree with this characterization?