I thought there’s something interesting in this concept (from this working paper) I need to explore in relation to my argument that generative AI constitutes a machinery for rendering tacit knowledge explicit, at least if you are inclined to use it in intellectually robust and reliable ways:
Complex configurations of tacit expectations, often undocumented preferences, and differences in the logic of discovery and justification within a field form epistemic cultures (Knorr-Cetina 2009) that we call socio-epistemic bubbles. We append “socio” to “epistemic” because they are socially constituted and reinforced, and label them bubbles because they are often localized rather than universal and remain invisible to those inside and outside them. Scientific practices circulate within these bubbles through scientific habitus (Bourdieu 1975) to precisely shape bio-science experiments, beyond that which is documented in a research paper or protocol.
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Mark Carrigan 