Epistemic Hygiene

TagLast edit: 2 Oct 2020 19:00 UTC 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.

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External links

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

Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)8 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC

152 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

What Evidence Filtered Evidence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2007 23:10 UTC

121 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

How to Bounded Distrust

Zvi9 Jan 2023 13:10 UTC

120 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice

AnnaSalamon and Steve_Rayhawk

5 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

61 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

What epistemic hygiene norms should there be?

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2012 19:26 UTC

29 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard

abramdemski19 Mar 2020 23:20 UTC

97 points

32 comments14 min readLW link

The epistemic virtue of scope matching

jasoncrawford15 Mar 2023 13:31 UTC

85 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Saying things because they sound good

Adam Zerner31 Jan 2023 0:17 UTC

23 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

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

jchan2 Jul 2023 13:40 UTC

22 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

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

Roman Leventov14 Sep 2022 21:05 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Adversarial epistemology

jchan24 Aug 2022 16:57 UTC

25 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Truthseeking when your disagreements lie in moral philosophy

Elizabeth and Tristan Williams

10 Oct 2023 0:00 UTC

98 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

We ran a reading group on The Scout Mindset

Neil Crawford and andreamurillo

24 Jun 2023 10:10 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Memetic downside risks: How ideas can evolve and cause harm

MichaelA, JustinShovelain and algekalipso

25 Feb 2020 19:47 UTC

21 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Dragon Agnosticism

jefftk1 Aug 2024 17:00 UTC

89 points

60 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Elizabeth5 Nov 2023 19:13 UTC

136 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Unconscious Economics

jacobjacob27 Feb 2019 12:58 UTC

138 points

30 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Machines vs. Memes 2: Memetically-Motivated Model Extensions

naterush31 May 2022 22:03 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

We should not raise awareness

lsusr1 Mar 2021 8:46 UTC

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

10 Feb 2023 13:55 UTC

39 points

0 comments43 min readLW link

Talking publicly about AI risk

Jan_Kulveit21 Apr 2023 11:28 UTC

180 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Machines vs Memes Part 3: Imitation and Memes

ceru231 Jun 2022 13:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

In the presence of disinformation, collective epistemology requires local modeling

jessicata15 Dec 2017 9:54 UTC

77 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

Machines vs Memes Part 1: AI Alignment and Memetics

Harriet Farlow31 May 2022 22:03 UTC

19 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Lack of Social Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue

Zack_M_Davis31 Jul 2023 16:38 UTC

16 points

96 comments4 min readLW link

Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster

Yitz13 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC

50 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

You Don’t Exist, Duncan

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)2 Feb 2023 8:37 UTC

244 points

107 comments9 min readLW link

Charging for the Dharma

jchan11 Nov 2022 14:02 UTC

32 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Deference on AI timelines: survey results

Sam Clarke and mccaffary

30 Mar 2023 23:03 UTC

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.

Noosphere8927 Mar 2023 20:49 UTC

4 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Jordan Peterson: Guru/Villain

Bryan Frances3 Feb 2023 9:02 UTC

−14 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

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

david reinstein11 Sep 2024 20:25 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The impossibility of rationally analyzing partisan news

RationalDino16 Nov 2023 16:19 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Play My Futarchy/Prediction Market Mafia Game

Arjun Panickssery4 Apr 2023 16:12 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon27 Jan 2024 17:13 UTC

70 points

20 comments14 min readLW link

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

cube_flipper23 Sep 2022 16:32 UTC

7 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(smoothbrains.net)

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

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See also