most people basically assume they’ve achieved domain expertise in their own lives (why wouldn’t you?) and promiscuously assign epistemic authority to ideas that are anecdotally confirmed by their “lived experience”
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arguing from lived experience is an absurdly overpowered dialectical jiu jitsu move “i have an authoritative view of my world (which pertains directly or obliquely to this conversation) and how dare you question the validity of my existence or perception?”
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when you make a maneuver like this, most people tend to tap out, even if they still disagree ofc it’s not necessarily wrong to argue from experience—but if you use it too often as a bad faith trump card, i think it can slowly erode *your ability to question your own authority*
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this is a common failure mode in identity politics, but i’ve also seen this pattern often in: - professional conflicts - arguments about art/taste - disagreements about actual facts that you can settle via google search
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