I do think though that studying something for a lifetime isn’t the same as expertise. People’s instincts on what domains allow for experience to equal expertise aren’t bad. I do think a lifetime studying explosives chemistry buys you more exclusive expertise claims than politics
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It’s a question of what domains do vs do not allow common experiences to teach you much. People do accrue a lot of relevant experience about politics in daily life. The closest we come to explosives experience is setting off fireworks. So we give ourselves more points on former.
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In general my default sympathies lie with lay people weighing in. There is a healthy disregard to bureaucratic boundaries, and reasonable impulse to apply analogies or adjacent life experiences.
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Where the stupid and/or malicious have gained more leverage to do damage, it’s generally self-correcting by activating expertise in response.
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The hard corner cases are where true expertise and lay ignorance meet in areas where said experts are forced to try and enforce prosocial behaviors on the laypeople for collective good (vaccines, climate, masks)
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But even there misguided behaviors like noble-lying about masks creates a case for lay people to be cautious in trusting experts even if they lack knowledge to reach their own judgments. When you’ve been lied to enough, pseudoscience seems better than being lied to yet again
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