As I've aged, my greatest epistemological conundrum has not been veracity of knowledge. There's little honest debate I've engaged where that's a root of dispute. It's the question of authority.
Once you reach my age, you can speak with authority on topics where you don't have it.
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Once you have enough general worldly knowledge, and - even more importantly - the social skills of projecting authority - the lines become extremely blurred. Where you actually do not know your own capability of being correct, and accidentally project an aura of unending mastery.
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I fully realize that my skills of communication and mystique in this account foster an idea of a polymath. I am truly good at it. The positive feedback I've received has lead me to speak on more and more topics.
But is it actually right I follow in those incentives, and do so?
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Have you seen signs people trust your authoritative talk outside of windows sysad stuff?
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This is legitimately the best insult I've received in years, even if it's entirely earnest and innocent.
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