Epistemic Reserve Notes

If you don’t have your counterparty’s trust — or piggyback on someone who does — an exchange of ideas can’t even begin.

Casually, trust is like a currency in that way.

The notion of epistemic sanctions clarifies what we might really mean by “consensus” in the context of public discourse — universal mutual listening , rather than universal agreement.

“Universal mutual listening” happens when publishers compete on the basis of trustworthiness, instead of on the basis of ‘facts.’

Competing on the basis of ‘facts’ most

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