• TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems
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    7 days ago

    Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism.

    Is this self-parody?

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      6 days ago

      Epistemic status: it’s aphids, man, aphids everywhere. I asked ChatGPT. They’re aphids. They’re in my hair, on my skin, in my lungs. And the pain, Barris, it’s unreasonable. They’re all over the place. Oh, they’ve completely gotten Millie too.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, as somebody who actually thinks the Epistemic status stuff isnt a bad idea.

      ‘look at how they massacred my boy’

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        6 days ago

        Even used as a way to honestly disclose how sure you are about a hot-take… it is still a term used to frame hot-takes. And the term “Epistemic Status” feels like cult jargon compared to “here’s how sure I am about this stuff”