My Chat with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Hugo Mercier - On Human Reasoning (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_519)
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Epistemic Vigilance: A Domain Specific Calculus
In say intersex dynamics, where I'm a man who is trying to convince you that I will be forever loyal to you. But clearly, I may have duplicitous intent and you as the woman has to be able to to see whether to gauge whether I'm truthful or not. In that case, the vigilance is very much rooted in a domain specific calculus versus the former example, which was a domain general one. Do you look at epistemic vigilance across these two ways of talking about things? Yeah, no, that's a great question. So first, we think thatEpistemic vigilance is domain specific to the extent that it is restricted to communicated information. We don't apply
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