I find the SSC "Too much dark money in almonds" post interesting because it starts from the premise that there obviously isn't too much dark money in almonds, an argument from incredulity, and uses this (and similar) to argue that there isn't too much dark money in politics, but
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In my social circles, people pass around a lot of articles by "smart generalists" who regularly write on a wide variety of topics. When the topic intersects with something I've studied, I usually find that the author has really fundamental misunderstandings about the topic.
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I don't mean to pick on SSC in particular, I think that's probably the least wrong "smart generalist" blog out there (I don't include gwern in this category since he seems to stick to topics he has a good understanding of, which limits the range of topics he writes about), but
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it seems very difficult and perhaps impossible to write about a wide variety of new topics all the time without saying a lot of things that are obviously naive or wrong to someone who's familiar with the field being discussed.
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It's become trendy to say that you should have credentials in the field to discuss it. To be clear, I'm not saying that. I think anyone can put in the time and learn about anything, I just don't think that someone can put in the time and learn about everything.
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