I think the best remedy to looking dogmatic is actually having good, legible epistemics, not avoiding coming across as dogmatic by adding false uncertainty.
This is a great sentence, I will be stealing it :)
However, I think “having good legible epistemics” being sufficient for not coming across as dogmatic is partially wishful thinking. A lot of these first impressions are just going to be pattern-matching, whether we like it or not.
I would be excited to find ways to pattern-match better, without actually sacrificing anything substantive. One thing I’ve found anecdotally is that a sort of “friendly transparency” works pretty well for this—just be up front about what you believe and why, don’t try to hide ideas that might scare people off, be open about the optics on things, ways you’re worried they might come across badly, and why those bad impressions are misleading, etc.
This is a great sentence, I will be stealing it :)
However, I think “having good legible epistemics” being sufficient for not coming across as dogmatic is partially wishful thinking. A lot of these first impressions are just going to be pattern-matching, whether we like it or not.
I would be excited to find ways to pattern-match better, without actually sacrificing anything substantive. One thing I’ve found anecdotally is that a sort of “friendly transparency” works pretty well for this—just be up front about what you believe and why, don’t try to hide ideas that might scare people off, be open about the optics on things, ways you’re worried they might come across badly, and why those bad impressions are misleading, etc.