Rephrase: Bioweapons are hard but I don’t know if I’m cool w/STS’s kind of nominalization & fetishization of tacit knowledge.pic.twitter.com/CQPQPd0bFL
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There are two common tacit knowledge errors I see in STS security scholarship. 1) Under-appreciation of role of instruments as reducers of tacit knowledge. (The difference between buying a Geiger counter and making one from scratch.)
2) Lack of appreciation of fact that tacit knowledge *can* in fact be transmitted and taught. It is what it means to become an expert. Takes 5-10 years when working from scratch. (i.e., grad school.) It is not at all an insuperable barrier.
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I just finished Collins’s “Rethinking Expertise”. It was worth reading (for me) and I get the desire for normatice theories of expert
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