Before Twitter and Google we used to become overnight experts on big news topics by rushing to the library and reading encyclopedias.
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I’m kidding we just stayed ignorant.
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Dunno why people are so down on sudden expertise. It’s better than persistent ignorance. Twitter sense-making crash courses have in fact made me more knowledgeable on many hot-take topics than on topics I’ve taken college classes in.
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People really have poor intuitions on the radical effects of information abundance, real-time updating, collective sensemaking, and Darwinian filtering of bs. College is good for topics where deep reasoning is needed. For everything else, use the hive mind.
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