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Thanks for this, and for your other reading lists! Several of these links are new to me, and I expect to gradually work through these lists over a few weeks.
I also previously made a collection of discussions of epistemic modesty, "rationalist/EA exceptionalism", and similar (but not cluelessness) on LessWrong. Here are the things from that list that aren't here or in Pablo's comment:
- Epistemic learned helplessness - Scott Alexander, 2019
- AI, global coordination, and epistemic humility - Jaan Tallinn, 2018
- From memory, I think a decent amount of Rationality: A-Z by Eliezer Yudkowsky is relevant
- Somewhat less relevant/substantial:
- This comment/question - me, 2020
- Naming Beliefs - Hal Finney, 2008
- Likely relevant, but I'm not yet sure how relevant as I haven't yet read it:
- Are Disagreements Honest? - Cowen & Hanson, 2004
- Uncommon Priors Require Origin Disputes - Robin Hanson, 2006
- Aumann's agreement theorem - Wikipedia
On cluelessness, I'd just note that I thought many of the comments on the EA Forum crosspost of Mogensen's paper were interesting too.
On cluelessness, I would add
On epistemic modesty: