# Epistemic Vigilance  ## Metadata - Author: [[Dan Sperber, Fabrice Clément, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro]] - Full Title: Epistemic Vigilance - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Humans rely heavily on communication but risk being misinformed. To manage this risk, people use cognitive mechanisms called epistemic vigilance. These mechanisms check who is speaking and whether the message itself seems believable. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/383359700 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > It underscores the contrast between cases where a speaker intends the addressee to accept what she says because she is saying it, and those where she expects him to accept what she says because he recognises it as sound. We will shortly elaborate on this distinction between vigilance towards the source of communicated information and vigilance towards its content. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k97zwqrjcd5j9dc16hd13ske))