Humans are epistemic pigs.

A quick announcement before we start.

I just released a podcast slash conversation slash interview with a YouTube channel called the Demy Sci podcast.

It's both a podcast and a YouTube channel.

I'm going to have links down below.

It's like a two and a half hour long conversation that I had.

This podcast is about science and science related topics.

I was interviewed and talked with a couple of PhDs, academics, so they interview scientists,

academics, this kind of heady, nerdy type of stuff. So we had an interesting conversation.

Go check that out. I'll have links down below. It's actually in two parts, part one and part two.

So that should be interesting to you. And now let's get into the main topic, which is epistemic responsibility.

So the first thing you need to notice is that people are profoundly irresponsible in general.

So that's just the topic of general responsibility, which I've talked about in the past.

I have episodes about responsibility, and I need to do some more episodes about responsibility

in general.

But here we need to specifically focus on epistemic responsibility because there are quite a few

human beings who are responsible.

They're responsible in business.

They're responsible in family.

They're responsible in academia, whatever, right?

They're responsible professionally.

But even though you've got that level of responsibility,

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