I liked that it brings up associations with risk, stars/space/a bigger, stranger future, and a healthy dose of pedantry. Part of the “EA mindset” I’m trying to illustrate is the urge to investigate claims in more depth. We like footnotes – hence, Asterisk.
Interesting, I wasn’t familiar with this connotation (even if I watch quite a few sports).
To me the name Asterisk is decent, but yeah it might not be a good one if it would be confused with other search results or journals/magazines, like asteriskjournal.org as noted by Azure here
I think they do want to allow speculative, less ‘we know for sure’ claims that are “epistemically signposted” and reasoning transparent. So to some extent that connotation for the asterisk is not so far off.
But I agree that I have heard of “that home run record comes with an asterisk”. But somewhat doubtful this will come to mind in this context.
Cool project! Could I ask why it’s called Asterisk?
I liked that it brings up associations with risk, stars/space/a bigger, stranger future, and a healthy dose of pedantry. Part of the “EA mindset” I’m trying to illustrate is the urge to investigate claims in more depth. We like footnotes – hence, Asterisk.
Hoverable footnotes I hope :)
The name seems potentially quite bad. To me, the connotation is that everything in it should be taken with an asterisk. E.g. its meaning as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Competitive_sports_and_games
Interesting, I wasn’t familiar with this connotation (even if I watch quite a few sports).
To me the name Asterisk is decent, but yeah it might not be a good one if it would be confused with other search results or journals/magazines, like asteriskjournal.org as noted by Azure here
I think they do want to allow speculative, less ‘we know for sure’ claims that are “epistemically signposted” and reasoning transparent. So to some extent that connotation for the asterisk is not so far off.
But I agree that I have heard of “that home run record comes with an asterisk”. But somewhat doubtful this will come to mind in this context.