It could be argued that describing the evidence ought to be a significant focus of the body of a post, if you are trying to persuade someone who might not otherwise be persuaded. It’s certainly a useful concept though, particularly when you just want to quickly share an idea that you expect will not require significant persuasive effort to be well received (to avoid people being overconfident in your idea).
Yeah—my intent was the epistemic effort was a short summary of how seriously you were trying to examine an idea. So you might say “ran a small informal experiment” or “did a serious literature review” in the Epistemic Effort section, and then later in the post you’d expound on what that actually meant.
It could be argued that describing the evidence ought to be a significant focus of the body of a post, if you are trying to persuade someone who might not otherwise be persuaded. It’s certainly a useful concept though, particularly when you just want to quickly share an idea that you expect will not require significant persuasive effort to be well received (to avoid people being overconfident in your idea).
Yeah—my intent was the epistemic effort was a short summary of how seriously you were trying to examine an idea. So you might say “ran a small informal experiment” or “did a serious literature review” in the Epistemic Effort section, and then later in the post you’d expound on what that actually meant.