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Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.

New Mexico
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    1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly May 3
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      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.

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    2. Michael Weisberg‏ @weisbergm May 4
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      I utterly disagree. The division of cognitive labor is necessary in all fields. Should you be expected to know how the Hubble constant is estimated to belive the universe is expanding? Do I need to know much about development to be concerned about teenagers driving?

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    3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly May 4
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      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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    4. Michael Weisberg‏ @weisbergm May 4
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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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      Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly May 4
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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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        2. Michael Weisberg‏ @weisbergm May 4
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          You aren’t going to get a professor to say more education isn’t a good thing! But we ought to be able to design a system of designing good public policy that doesn’t presuppose well meaning citizens need training in the relevant fields, time and attention is limited.

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        3. all cars are bastards‏ @NotMyLinkedIn May 4
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          It was time to stop taking Geoffrey seriously when he posited that a person not privy to two specifically selected bits of information must not be privy to any details at all about an incredibly broad, complicated topic.

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