Since the very beginning of LW, there has been a common theme that you can’t always defer to experts, or that the experts aren’t always competent, or that experts on a topic don’t always exist, or that you sometimes have to do your own reasoning to determine who the experts are, etc. (E.g. LW on Hero Licensing, or on the Correct Contrarian Cluster, or on Inadequate Equilibria; or ACX in Movie Review: Don’t Look Up.)
I don’t think this post makes a particularly unique contribution to that larger theme, but I did appreciate its timing, and how it made and referenced its examples.
Since the very beginning of LW, there has been a common theme that you can’t always defer to experts, or that the experts aren’t always competent, or that experts on a topic don’t always exist, or that you sometimes have to do your own reasoning to determine who the experts are, etc. (E.g. LW on Hero Licensing, or on the Correct Contrarian Cluster, or on Inadequate Equilibria; or ACX in Movie Review: Don’t Look Up.)
I don’t think this post makes a particularly unique contribution to that larger theme, but I did appreciate its timing, and how it made and referenced its examples.