It seems like a super quick habit-formation trick for a bunch of socioepistemic gains is just saying “that seems overconfident”. The old Sequences/Methods version is “just what do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?”
A friend was recently upset about his epistemic environment, like he didn’t feel like people around him were able to reason and he didn’t feel comfortable defecting on their echo chamber. I found it odd that he said he felt like he was the overconfident one for doubting the reams of overconfident people around him! So I told him, start small, try just asking people if they’re really as confident as they sound.
In my experience, it’s a gentle nudge that helps people be better versions of themselves. Tho I said “it seems” cuz I don’t know how many different communities it work would reliably in—the case here is someone almost 30 in a nice college with very few grad students in an isolated town.
It seems like a super quick habit-formation trick for a bunch of socioepistemic gains is just saying “that seems overconfident”. The old Sequences/Methods version is “just what do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?”
A friend was recently upset about his epistemic environment, like he didn’t feel like people around him were able to reason and he didn’t feel comfortable defecting on their echo chamber. I found it odd that he said he felt like he was the overconfident one for doubting the reams of overconfident people around him! So I told him, start small, try just asking people if they’re really as confident as they sound.
In my experience, it’s a gentle nudge that helps people be better versions of themselves. Tho I said “it seems” cuz I don’t know how many different communities it work would reliably in—the case here is someone almost 30 in a nice college with very few grad students in an isolated town.