Epistemic Hygiene

TagLast edit: Oct 2, 2020, 7:00 PM by Ruby

Epistemic hygiene consists of practices meant to allow accurate beliefs to spread within a community and keep less accurate or biased beliefs contained. The practices are meant to serve an analogous purpose to normal hygiene and sanitation in containing disease. “Good cognitive citizenship” is another phrase that has been proposed for this concept¹.

Blog posts

External links

Free Will: Good Cognitive Citizenship with Will Wilkinson and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jun 8, 2022, 8:32 AM

153 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard

abramdemskiMar 19, 2020, 11:20 PM

97 points

32 comments14 min readLW link

How to Bounded Distrust

ZviJan 9, 2023, 1:10 PM

122 points

17 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice

AnnaSalamon and Steve_Rayhawk

Mar 5, 2009, 4:28 AM

61 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

What Evidence Filtered Evidence?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 29, 2007, 11:10 PM

122 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

What epistemic hygiene norms should there be?

Kaj_SotalaMar 21, 2012, 7:26 PM

29 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

The epistemic virtue of scope matching

jasoncrawfordMar 15, 2023, 1:31 PM

85 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Saying things because they sound good

Adam ZernerJan 31, 2023, 12:17 AM

23 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Truthseeking when your disagreements lie in moral philosophy

Elizabeth and Tristan Williams

Oct 10, 2023, 12:00 AM

99 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Adversarial epistemology

jchanAug 24, 2022, 4:57 PM

25 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

We ran a reading group on The Scout Mindset

Neil Crawford and andreamurillo

Jun 24, 2023, 10:10 AM

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The problem with the media presentation of “believing in AI”

Roman LeventovSep 14, 2022, 9:05 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Through a panel, darkly: a case study in internet BS detection

jchanJul 2, 2023, 1:40 PM

22 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Lack of Social Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue

Zack_M_DavisJul 31, 2023, 4:38 PM

39 points

105 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

You Don’t Exist, Duncan

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Feb 2, 2023, 8:37 AM

252 points

107 comments9 min readLW link

Dragon Agnosticism

jefftkAug 1, 2024, 5:00 PM

94 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Stop Making Sense

JenniferRMDec 23, 2024, 5:16 AM

16 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

EA orgs’ legal structure inhibits risk taking and information sharing on the margin

ElizabethNov 5, 2023, 7:13 PM

136 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Unconscious Economics

Bird ConceptFeb 27, 2019, 12:58 PM

138 points

30 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Machines vs. Memes 2: Memetically-Motivated Model Extensions

naterushMay 31, 2022, 10:03 PM

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

We should not raise awareness

lsusrMar 1, 2021, 8:46 AM

36 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

FLI Podcast: Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets (Part 1/3)

remember and Andrea_Miotti

Feb 10, 2023, 1:55 PM

39 points

0 comments43 min readLW link

Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm

MichaelA, JustinShovelain and algekalipso

Feb 25, 2020, 7:47 PM

27 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Talking publicly about AI risk

Jan_KulveitApr 21, 2023, 11:28 AM

180 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Machines vs Memes Part 3: Imitation and Memes

ceru23Jun 1, 2022, 1:36 PM

7 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

In the presence of disinformation, collective epistemology requires local modeling

jessicataDec 15, 2017, 9:54 AM

77 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

Machines vs Memes Part 1: AI Alignment and Memetics

Harriet FarlowMay 31, 2022, 10:03 PM

19 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster

YitzNov 13, 2022, 5:37 AM

50 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

How to use DMT without going insane: On navigating epistemic uncertainty in the DMT memeplex

cube_flipperSep 23, 2022, 4:32 PM

7 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(smoothbrains.net)

Charging for the Dharma

jchanNov 11, 2022, 2:02 PM

32 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

You are not too “irrational” to know your preferences.

DaystarEldNov 26, 2024, 3:01 PM

231 points

50 comments13 min readLW link

Checking public figures on whether they “answered the question” quick analysis from Harris/Trump debate, and a proposal

david reinsteinSep 11, 2024, 8:25 PM

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Jordan Peterson: Guru/Villain

Bryan FrancesFeb 3, 2023, 9:02 AM

−14 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Epistemic Hell

rogersbaconJan 27, 2024, 5:13 PM

71 points

20 comments14 min readLW link

Play My Futarchy/Prediction Market Mafia Game

Arjun PanicksseryApr 4, 2023, 4:12 PM

21 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Deference on AI timelines: survey results

Sam Clarke and mccaffary

Mar 30, 2023, 11:03 PM

25 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Best arguments against the outside view that AGI won’t be a huge deal, thus we survive.

Noosphere89Mar 27, 2023, 8:49 PM

4 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The impossibility of rationally analyzing partisan news

RationalDinoNov 16, 2023, 4:19 PM

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

aausch 23 Aug 2023 0:29 UTC
1 point
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Free Will: Good Cognitive Citizenship with Will Wilkinson and Eliezer Yudkowsky <-- This link contains the wrong video, I think. Anyone have the correct video?

Epistemic Hygiene

Blog posts

External links

See also