Do you mean you haven’t heard the term social epistemology, or that you haven’t heard epistemic humility specifically (or debates around that) referred to by the term social epistemology?
I’d envision this tag including not just things like “How epistemically humble should we be, and how should we update given other people’s statements/beliefs?”, but also things like when we should give just our conclusions vs also our reasoning if we’re 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 they’re about how to communicate givenhow other people might handle epistemic humility, but saying they’re about social epistemology (or something else) seems more natural to me.
(That said, I think I’m only familiar with the term social epistemology from how it’s occasionally used by EAs, and the Wikipedia article’s lead section makes me uncertain if they’re using the term in the standard way.)
Maybe the best tag label would be Epistemic Humility & Social Epistemology, to put the term that’s more common in EA first? That’s 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-Barratt’s recent post:
Learning can be much more efficient if we allow the transmission of heuristics between people, but if you don’t require people to have any grounding in their own experience or cases they’ve directly heard about, it’s possible for heuristics to be propagated without regard for whether they’re still useful, or if the underlying circumstances have changed enough that they shouldn’t be applied. Navigating this tension is an interesting problem in social epistemology.
Do you mean you haven’t heard the term social epistemology, or that you haven’t heard epistemic humility specifically (or debates around that) referred to by the term social epistemology?
I’d envision this tag including not just things like “How epistemically humble should we be, and how should we update given other people’s statements/beliefs?”, but also things like when we should give just our conclusions vs also our reasoning if we’re 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 they’re about how to communicate given how other people might handle epistemic humility, but saying they’re about social epistemology (or something else) seems more natural to me.
(That said, I think I’m only familiar with the term social epistemology from how it’s occasionally used by EAs, and the Wikipedia article’s lead section makes me uncertain if they’re using the term in the standard way.)
Maybe the best tag label would be Epistemic Humility & Social Epistemology, to put the term that’s more common in EA first? That’s 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-Barratt’s recent post: