I really like Social Epistemology except for the crucial flaw that I havenāt heard it called that before. Without the ability for people to recognize it, I think itās worse than Epistemic Humility. (Normally Iād prefer the more general term, rather than a term for one strategy within the space.)
Do you mean you havenāt heard the term social epistemology, or that you havenāt heard epistemic humility specifically (or debates around that) referred to by the term social epistemology?
Iād envision this tag including not just things like āHow epistemically humble should we be, and how should we update given other peopleās statements/ābeliefs?ā, but also things like when we should give just our conclusions vs also our reasoning if weāre concerned about information cascades, and to what extent publicly stating explicit estimates will cause anchoring by others. Those things could arguably be seen as about epistemic humility in that theyāre about how to communicate givenhow other people might handle epistemic humility, but saying theyāre about social epistemology (or something else) seems more natural to me.
(That said, I think Iām only familiar with the term social epistemology from how itās occasionally used by EAs, and the Wikipedia articleās lead section makes me uncertain if theyāre using the term in the standard way.)
Maybe the best tag label would be Epistemic Humility & Social Epistemology, to put the term thatās more common in EA first? Thatās a longer label than average, though.
FWIW, both my suggestion of this tag and my suggestion of the term social epistemology for it were prompted by the following part of Owen Cotton-Barrattās recent post:
Learning can be much more efficient if we allow the transmission of heuristics between people, but if you donāt require people to have any grounding in their own experience or cases theyāve directly heard about, itās possible for heuristics to be propagated without regard for whether theyāre still useful, or if the underlying circumstances have changed enough that they shouldnāt be applied. Navigating this tension is an interesting problem in social epistemology.
(Update: Iāve now made this tag, with the name Epistemic Humility and a description noting it can be about other, broadly related things as well.)
Social Epistemology & Epistemic Humility or [just one of those terms] or [some other label]
Some posts that might fit this tag:
In defence of epistemic modesty
Some thoughts on deference and inside-view models
EA reading list: cluelessness and epistemic modesty
āGood judgementā and its components
Maybe some other posts tagged Rationality
I really like Social Epistemology except for the crucial flaw that I havenāt heard it called that before. Without the ability for people to recognize it, I think itās worse than Epistemic Humility. (Normally Iād prefer the more general term, rather than a term for one strategy within the space.)
Do you mean you havenāt heard the term social epistemology, or that you havenāt heard epistemic humility specifically (or debates around that) referred to by the term social epistemology?
Iād envision this tag including not just things like āHow epistemically humble should we be, and how should we update given other peopleās statements/ābeliefs?ā, but also things like when we should give just our conclusions vs also our reasoning if weāre concerned about information cascades, and to what extent publicly stating explicit estimates will cause anchoring by others. Those things could arguably be seen as about epistemic humility in that theyāre about how to communicate given how other people might handle epistemic humility, but saying theyāre about social epistemology (or something else) seems more natural to me.
(That said, I think Iām only familiar with the term social epistemology from how itās occasionally used by EAs, and the Wikipedia articleās lead section makes me uncertain if theyāre using the term in the standard way.)
Maybe the best tag label would be Epistemic Humility & Social Epistemology, to put the term thatās more common in EA first? Thatās a longer label than average, though.
FWIW, both my suggestion of this tag and my suggestion of the term social epistemology for it were prompted by the following part of Owen Cotton-Barrattās recent post:
I have now read the post that contains Social Epistemology.
I also wasnāt clear before, but I was biasing towards one shorter label or another.