When I see Jordan Peterson touting thoroughly debunked inflation theories it makes me wonder what other ideas are debunked that I can’t recognize because I have no expertise there.
A reminder that being smart in one area doesn’t translate into being smart everywhere.
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Nick it's an interesting problem. The first instinct is to discount that person even in their own domain but that probably is wrong too (you can dispute Kasparov on politics but not chess).
This Scott Alexander bit (ht is relevant)
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This is Scott Young's post which is very adjacent to this topic
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This was a super interesting blog post, Kris. Thank you for linking to it.
I don’t know enough about inflation or Peterson to opine intelligently about this, though!
i meant you probably had some writing on the meta-problem of how to think about people opining on stuff outside their field
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The Scott Alexander post on Jordan Peterson (his review of 12 rules for life) unifies all these ideas and is one of the most interesting things I’ve read.
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