# [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Underestimating inferential distances #to-digest The idea is that in our ancestral environment we could transfer [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] between [[Mind|mind]]s easily, new knowledge semantically close to the band [[Common knowledge]] (say, when discovering america, everyone knows geolocation, countries etc, but when you discover [[Relativity|relativity]], it’s very specific [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]]). [[Pitching & hindsight bias]] requires to understand this bias that we possess, and always make sure that we have an **approximate model of our audience knowledge** and our own knowledge in order to **communicate in a model-aligned way** # External links