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A stand-in name for a generally very cool guy, liked by all.
Oh I really liked him, he's very Epistemic like.
not afraid to play with balls or get down and dirty with the dogs. He doesnt mind bending you over or exploring your scat fetish. An all around messed up guy. Epi-Steam
He Mark Donz you're a damn episteme.
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Culture of origin: lesswrong-adjacent blogging communities
The epistemic status is a short disclaimer at the top of a post that explains how confident the author is in the contents of the post, how much reputation the author is willing to stake on it, what sorts of tests the thesis has passed.
It should give a reader a sense of how seriously they should take the post.
It had "Epistemic Status: Wild off-the-cuff speculation" so I didn't bother to read it. It seemed entertaining, just didn't have time.
He said "Epistemic Status: Would bet at 30:1 odds in favour of the thesis and I probably one of the top 100 theorists in the intersection of the relevant fields" but it still seemed completely insane to me. Heads better roll if/when it turns out to be wrong. Like, I mean it, he should lose all of his social capital. People should stop reading his blog and his eigenkarma should be reset (If he's somehow right though I will be very impressed)
"Epistemic Status: Fiction"
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Family-Knowledge-Brain&Skull-Exploding. Due to being too close to your family and or learning things about them that cause your brain&skull to explode.
"Dude my mom told me about the day she gave birth to me and I almost had a taxonomic-epistem-Cerebellum&Cranium-explosion"
"how'd he die?""He died from taxonomic-epistem-Cerebellum&Cranium-explosion because he was working on his family tree and found out he was related to James T. Kirk"
- Knowledge or understanding
- For Plato, it is knowledge that has been derived by justifying an opinion with an argument.
- “Is there an episteme in virtual worlds?
The quality of a person's skills in epistemology ― cognitive bias compensation, scientific skepticism toward oneself and others, bullshit like that. Associated with reasonableness, curiosity, empiricism, a burning for learning, obsessive devotion to evidence as the arbiter of truth, mental modeling skills, high-rung thinking, evenhandedness, honesty, humility, a love of simplicity, perfectionism, precision, scholarship, game-theoretic analysis, statistical literacy, and other junk the human race hasn't figured out yet.
"Oh, I do ClearerThinking quizzes most days to boost my epistemics. Plus I read Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality and LessWrong, to help me be cool like Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander and those other navel-gazing windbags I never read like... Immanuel Kant? Whatever, point is, all humans are morons until they learn how to think. So I'm trying to learn how to be a bit less mind-bogglingly stupid than average."