The Internet did not kill experts. A completely bogus theory about knowledge as information killed experts.https://twitter.com/mmay3r/status/857851227589140484 …
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Replying to @vakibs
The expert as a talking head that commands authority for having had access to the hermetic insights of his profession—that is gone.
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Replying to @Plinz
Totally agree. I think expertise should be about understanding the complexity of any given situation and adapting the knowledge accordingly.
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We need to cultivate such expertise, because things are indeed getting more and more complex. "One size fits all" methods will not work.
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The real problem is economy has not evolved to support diverse, individualized service. Industrialization was all about mass production.
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A deeper problem is that without an incentive to cultivate expertise, there will be no purpose for life in old age. http://the-redpill.blogspot.de/2015/05/growing-old-in-age-of-machine-learning.html …
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Replying to @vakibs
Let us stop all these newfangled fads the kids are using so I can grow old as a wise venerated prophet of what I learned 20 years ago
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Replying to @Plinz
I am not saying that at all. In my essay, I wrote about the diversity of human societies in how they treat old people.
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Our society is treating age quite well, but it is harshly unforgiving to declining neuroplasticity.
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