In addition to the EA Forum topic entry, there is a forum post from a few months ago by a researcher on topics related to epistemology in EA named Owen Cotton-Barratt reviewing a taxonomy of common types of deference in EA, and open issues with them, that I found informative.
I wrote another comment below that touched on deference, though I wrote it more quickly than carefully and I might have used the concept in a confused way as a I don’t have much formal understanding of deference outside of EA, so don’t take my word for it. How deference as a concept has been used in EA differently in the last year has seemed ambiguous to me, so I’m inclined to agree that progress in EA in understanding deference could be made through your challenge to the current understanding of the subject.
In addition to the EA Forum topic entry, there is a forum post from a few months ago by a researcher on topics related to epistemology in EA named Owen Cotton-Barratt reviewing a taxonomy of common types of deference in EA, and open issues with them, that I found informative.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LKdhv9a478o9ngbcY/deferring
I wrote another comment below that touched on deference, though I wrote it more quickly than carefully and I might have used the concept in a confused way as a I don’t have much formal understanding of deference outside of EA, so don’t take my word for it. How deference as a concept has been used in EA differently in the last year has seemed ambiguous to me, so I’m inclined to agree that progress in EA in understanding deference could be made through your challenge to the current understanding of the subject.