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[-]Ben Pace5y60

I think this tag description is confused between humility and modesty, as was originally written in the Twelve Virtues:

To be humble is to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors. To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Might come back and edit the description a bit, but overall it seems that the list of posts is largely accurate and useful.

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[-]Ruby5y20

I don't think it's confused so much as isn't using those English synonyms in the precise way Eliezer has begun using them. Does make sense to conform to that though.

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[-]abramdemski5y20

Fixed, sorta, but now this tag needs to be merged with "humility". (I've named it "epistemic humility" in the meantime, but I think it should just be called "humility" -- no one says "epistemic humility" I think.)

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[-]Yoav Ravid4y20

The beginning still seems to make this mistake. Enough that I wondered if someone came after you and made new edits that were wrong (no one did, it's the original text).

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[-]Rob Bensinger4y20

Can confirm, article was totally crazy pro-modesty propaganda; have mostly rewritten from scratch. :)

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[-]Yoav Ravid4y20

Nice! It's much better now. I made a few more small edits so the beginning works better as an excerpt and to add some links.

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