I went to tag this post, and… couldn’t easily find a more specific tag than “rationality”. I feel like this post is focused on a particular concept that’s, like, an established sequence concept, but I’m not sure what it is. “Virtue of Lightness” / “What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?” are the two catchphrases that feel relevant, but those don’t feel like they have quite the right type-signature for a tag.
There are 2 posts that are somewhat related, but shifted back 13 years, and they don’t have super helpful tags either. Maybe there are lots of these laying around?
(I tried thinking for a while and couldn’t come up with anything either. I think it maybe falls under the heading “split and commit,” which I think really is one of the more fundamental motions or concepts, but it doesn’t have a long history in LW culture and also doesn’t feel like it’s quite the right type signature.)
I think if we got to, like, 5 split-and-commit posts it’d make sense as a tag, but it still feels like that should just be a subset of a broader “lightness” concept.
“Epistemic Lightness”, “Epistemic Hygiene” feel close to the right type signature.
Turns out we already had an epistemic hygiene wiki post (from Old LW), which I just converted into a tag and added this post to. (further edit: not quite sure it was the right thing but seems better to fail-forwards)
I went to tag this post, and… couldn’t easily find a more specific tag than “rationality”. I feel like this post is focused on a particular concept that’s, like, an established sequence concept, but I’m not sure what it is. “Virtue of Lightness” / “What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?” are the two catchphrases that feel relevant, but those don’t feel like they have quite the right type-signature for a tag.
There are 2 posts that are somewhat related, but shifted back 13 years, and they don’t have super helpful tags either. Maybe there are lots of these laying around?
You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom
Thanks for digging these up!
(I tried thinking for a while and couldn’t come up with anything either. I think it maybe falls under the heading “split and commit,” which I think really is one of the more fundamental motions or concepts, but it doesn’t have a long history in LW culture and also doesn’t feel like it’s quite the right type signature.)
I think if we got to, like, 5 split-and-commit posts it’d make sense as a tag, but it still feels like that should just be a subset of a broader “lightness” concept.
“Epistemic Lightness”, “Epistemic Hygiene” feel close to the right type signature.
Turns out we already had an epistemic hygiene wiki post (from Old LW), which I just converted into a tag and added this post to. (further edit: not quite sure it was the right thing but seems better to fail-forwards)