EA reading list: cluelessness and epistemic modesty

By richard_ngo @ 2020-08-03T09:23 (+27)

Start here:

Further reading:


Pablo_Stafforini @ 2020-08-03T12:01 (+14)

On cluelessness, I would add

On epistemic modesty:

MichaelA @ 2020-08-04T12:01 (+6)

Thanks for this, and for your other reading lists! Several of these links are new to me, and I expect to gradually work through these lists over a few weeks.

I also previously made a collection of discussions of epistemic modesty, "rationalist/EA exceptionalism", and similar (but not cluelessness) on LessWrong. Here are the things from that list that aren't here or in Pablo's comment:

On cluelessness, I'd just note that I thought many of the comments on the EA Forum crosspost of Mogensen's paper were interesting too.

MichaelA @ 2020-09-02T14:00 (+5)

Also relevant: Phil Trammell's interesting, short post But have they engaged with the arguments?