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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There was a memo by George Kennan or somebody about that Straussian burden someone posted on Quora I can’t find now
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