Seth Gibson

The linked article has a bunch of examples in the section "A bunch of examples". None of those have any probabilities attached to it. The post does not list "your confidence" in the section "Valuable information to list in an epistemic status". 

Let me expand the quote I gave from before to add context

"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 stake on it, what sorts of tests the thesis has passed.

It should give a reader a sense of how seriously they should take the post."

I think that’s a surprisingly

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 stake on it, what sorts of tests the thesis has passed.

It should give a reader a

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. If the claim is important enough it is denoted with a percentage value that represents... (read more)