I tend to disagree, although I could be wrong. My epistemic status for the claim is at 65% ;). I have not spent as much time on lesswrong so it wouldn't surprise me.
Before posting that comment I double checked with this article. Here is a quote which the author got from urban dictionary (the author said the definition is accurate, and from my experience I agreed):
...The epistemic status is a short disclaimer at the top of a post that explains how confident the author is in the contents of the post, how much reputation the author is willing to
It helps to know the contexts in which the term is often used, how it is motivated, and where the term probably came from. Thus, it is important to know the term in relation to other terms.
I haven't heard the term "epistemic state" used often in the community, but depending on the context in which the person used the term, I imagine the person using it meant their overall "epistemic status" for a collection of claims (or their confidence in any given claim).
An epistemic status describes how confident a person is in a particular argument or idea...
Let me expand the quote I gave from before to add context
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