Oly Sourbut

It's about the overall system and those other components.

But knowing that those things are well-constructed can enable, ideally, a more trustworthy downstream system overall.

And so this gets to another direction that we're kind of considering as well, which is, can we... And this is just kind of one interface into that, but I recently read a blog post

with my colleague Ben, where we're talking about the concept of a full epistemic stack.

And this is where we're asking the questions like, what is it that actually constitutes a good epistemic practice?

And how does that happen between people?

So how does a community have good epistemic practices?

And it's things like legibility of citations and sources,

what we might call provenance of ideas and data and so on.

And if you think about in science, you have some of this, you have citations, but sometimes they're very crude or kind of rough.

And then those citations have citations and they make claims.

And maybe those claims are kind of backed up by some of the evidence they're pointing to, or some of the kind of like reasoning or the kind of research they've performed in that piece of work.

And then, you know, the conclusion gets kind of distorted.

You've got this, I think in America, it's called the telephone game.

In Britain, we say Chinese whispers.

There's this process where the information can kind of get distorted.

So enabling that to work better is one thing.

And then there's also the process of discourse, where a position is put forward, there are reasons to be uncertain or skeptical, and then other investigation is performed, other insights and positions are brought in, and then the dialogue moves forward, and the state of the discourse expands and improves.

And enabling that to happen in a more kind of fluent and perhaps auditable, legible way is important.

This is a little bit more kind of nascent.