Perhaps people will now think: “Hm, I wasn’t going to write a post about this because I didn’t feel that it would be good enough for LessWrong. And I’m not sure how confident exactly I am, so I’m not sure what I’d write for epistemic status. But with epistemic effort, I can just describe the efforts I made, readers will draw the right conclusions regarding how much weight to assign my article. And I don’t have to worry about misleading anyone. I otherwise would worry about misleading readers because I get the sense that implicitly, a post on LessWrong implies high epistemic effort and high epistemic status.”
If people think this, my impression is that it would be largely a good thing.
Perhaps people will now think: “Hm, I wasn’t going to write a post about this because I didn’t feel that it would be good enough for LessWrong. And I’m not sure how confident exactly I am, so I’m not sure what I’d write for epistemic status. But with epistemic effort, I can just describe the efforts I made, readers will draw the right conclusions regarding how much weight to assign my article. And I don’t have to worry about misleading anyone. I otherwise would worry about misleading readers because I get the sense that implicitly, a post on LessWrong implies high epistemic effort and high epistemic status.”
If people think this, my impression is that it would be largely a good thing.