What adds complexity here is how specialized parts of our lives have become. I had to defer knowing about whole swaths of life to become a domain expert in biomedical science. I have to trust that those people doing those things I don't know about are handling it.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
True! Specialization is fine & good. We need mechanisms besides object-level knowledge to evaluate trustworthiness. (Track records, journalism, social proof, and lawsuits are examples.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
What I really want is to not need to track this stuff in domains I'm not interested in. I once relied on journalism and lawsuits to do this (never was much for social proof, myself), but now I have to learn which of those are doing a good job, because so many aren't.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
Well if there are enough people like you, there may be a market for *paid* analysis services!
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @mrgunn
with trickle-down and/or redistributive mechanisms to ensure people with no money for premium analysis still have access to reasonable quality information, one hopes
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
The thing I want isn't specialized information services so much as a metaanalysis of which services, in domains I don't personally have expertise, are really delivering the goods.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
At some point this bottoms out in “either somebody has to make this their job or you gotta do it yourself or you roll the dice and take your chances”, right? What other options are there?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @anaisnein9
Yeah, at some point you have to just let go of needing to know in certain areas.
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Replying to @mrgunn @anaisnein9
For myself, there’s stuff I just have Yawning Chasm of Doubt about (anything international relations or social science), but I don’t actually need to know; and there’s stuff I have a husband for (all things automotive or consumer electronics)
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and there’s stuff I figure i’ll have to learn someday & will likely get burned somewhat by ignorance (how to organize a funeral)
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