[HN Gopher] Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the...
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       Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper
       Press
        
       Author : mdp2021
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-11-18 08:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mdp2021 wrote:
       | The article examines the internal building of strategies to
       | discriminate truth and non-truth in multi-agent systems, such as
       | newspaper offices.
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       | > _We hypothesize that in addition to psychological capacities of
       | epistemic vigilance, which evaluate the epistemic value of
       | communicated information, some social institutions have evolved
       | for the same function. Certain newspapers for instance, implement
       | processes, distributed among several experts and tools, whose
       | function is to curate information_
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       | It should be noted that there are parallels with the general
       | problem of Discrimination in the practice of Science: the problem
       | of discrimination, which the article calls "Epistemic Vigilance"
       | in the case of individuals, applies from reading the face of the
       | interlocutor to groups facing malicious agents to the whole
       | theory of the assessment of theories.
       | 
       | A call for awareness about <<informavores>> which are <<endowed
       | only with limited information processing capacities>> seems to
       | bring the real-world "satisficer" of Herbert Simon (opposed to
       | the "spheroidal" "homo economicus") in a need for aggregation to
       | build infrastructures for the selection of resources in "overly
       | populated solution spaces", where many of those are suboptimal as
       | an understatement (they are "traps"). It remains in a way an
       | economic problem.
        
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