Well, I would argue the same about people who really understood the vaccine before taking it, and the possible long-term epidemiological outcomes, too :)
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
we have a very useful shortcut for that called "listen to the experts" though
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @sohakes and
That sentiment I do object to. Saying "listen to the experts" presumes the person knows who is an expert, which is precisely the thing in question here. I point again to examples, such as "eat mostly carbohydrates" situation.
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Replying to @cmuratori @TylerGlaiel and
Often think of this (img). Hearing a lot of “why trust the establisment? “ and “What makes an expert consensus better than this single outlier?” And it’s like: this is the basis of human society. We trust the consensus of our experts. Otherwise it all falls apart fastpic.twitter.com/q9sWySb4Fy
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Replying to @warrenblyth @TylerGlaiel and
This image is offensive enough, and blatantly wrong enough, that I wish I had a non-programming YouTube channel so I could rant about it for the hour it deserves. And I say that _as_ an expert in a field.
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Replying to @cmuratori @warrenblyth and
Could you please elaborate on this? I'm very curious on what makes you dislike this statment, which I find very sensible.
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Replying to @_cyphics_ @warrenblyth and
It would take a very long time to elaborate, because I think it is a statement that comes entirely from the core misunderstanding about how humans "know" things, mostly driven by hubris, that most people today take to be a given.
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Replying to @cmuratori @_cyphics_ and
It also includes things that are not about the actual issue. The alternative to "just trust an expert" is not "hear all sides", unless you think humans work differently than they actually do, which the author (and most people on Twitter) clearly think.
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Replying to @cmuratori @_cyphics_ and
So the shortest answer I can give is: I could write an entire book on why this answer is wrong; it is also why I have trouble talking to people on Twitter, because I think most people are wrong about most things for the same reasons; I don't know why I bother mentioning it :)
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Replying to @cmuratori @_cyphics_ and
Similarly, I would consider myself "an expert" in programming, and yet I can tell you for certain I can not do the things in programming that so-called "experts" in things like public health are supposedly able to tell you based on ridiculous statements like the one in the tweet.
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So this is not a "I know better than other experts". It is a "I know what experts know, and it is a lot less than people claim that they know" statement. And I think a fair read of technological history clearly demonstrates that "experts" are not how good decision making works.
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