Perhaps the deepest lesson that I’ve learned in the last ten years is that there can be this seeming consensus, these things that everyone knows that seem sort of wise, seem like they’re common sense, but really they’re just kind of herding behaviour masquerading as maturity and sophistication, and when you’ve seen how the consensus can change overnight, when you’ve seen it happen a number of times, eventually you just start saying nope
A nice articulation on false intellectual fences
Dario Amodei
Here is an example of Dario Amodei participating in one of these (to my eyes at least).