I absolutely love the &quot;belief tags&quot; &#x2F; &quot;epistemic status&quot; annotations. Gwern stole his &quot;belief tags&quot; from[0] (I link it because there&#x27;s a cool article there worth checking out), and Scott Alexander has also adopted them.<p>This sort of matches the way I personally thing about information and my own opinions. Back in my head I always have this feeling of &quot;degree of confidence&quot;, of how sure I am about what I&#x27;m saying, and it&#x27;s often hard to express it in the speech itself. It fits perfectly as meta-data &#x2F; qualification. Saying once, &quot;this is a thought I&#x27;m playing with, I&#x27;m not sure either way&quot; beats having to qualify every sentence with &quot;maybe&quot;.<p>Also, I have most fun reading arguments that sound totally convincing to me but are tagged by author as something he doesn&#x27;t have high confidence in. I end up having to figure out how this smart guy just convinced me of something he himself isn&#x27;t sure about.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcitation.org&#x2F;6DuYcqyQ3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcitation.org&#x2F;6DuYcqyQ3</a>