Pro tip: if someone says they're 'very concerned' about climate change, ask them if they're more worried about permafrost melting or about methane clathrate melting. If they don't have an answer ready, they weren't 'concerned' enough to learn much about climate change.
So you're equally concerned about everything that experts suggest you should be concerned about, without using any mental models of how the world works to judge which experts know what they're talking about, or which risks to prioritize?
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Of course not. I was responding to what sounded like your dismissal of the division of cognitive labor. And, in addition, you and I can go a lot deeper than most people can. But we need to be able to defer to experts at every level.
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I just think if there's been intense partisan debate for decades about some issue, citizens who care about the issue have an epistemic duty to develop more than a superficial level of understanding... because, among other reasons, they might be wrong.
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