# How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Rob Bensinger]]
- Full Title: How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Psr9tnQFuEXiuqGcR/how-to-write-quickly-while-maintaining-epistemic-rigor

## Highlights
- There’s one trick, and it’s simple: stop trying to justify your beliefs. Don’t go looking for citations to back your claim. Instead, think about why you currently believe this thing, and try to accurately describe what led you to believe it.
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- Point is: the amount of uncertainty I should assign depends on the details of my process. It depends on the path by which I reached the conclusion.
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- Good epistemic habits include living with uncertainty. Good epistemic discourse includes making uncertain statements, and accurately conveying our uncertainty in them. Trying to always research things to high confidence, and never sharing anything without high confidence, is a bad habit.
    - Tags: [[writing]] [[favorite]] [[epistemology]]