I agree. I was just trying to help come up with a way to find where that correlation breaks, or is countered by other external factors. A trivial example: A mormon dentist who is extremely irrational about religion, and yet exceedingly rational about tooth decay.
I like to think of myself as a protoBorg: I seek the strengths of other people, and add them to my own. Except since I’m much more bounded than they are, I often just make a note that if I am interested in increasing my uniqueness in the field of X, then I could start by talking to Person B.
“When assessing someone’s reliability, do you ignore the issue you seek >knowledge about?”
So getting back to that, I would say that instead of ignoring the issue, I try to see how the person fits in a network of subjects, and mark their reliability up or down in issues where they most closely touch the issue at hand. I still think of Person B as excellent with programming, history, current events, general knowledge. I just don’t trust his self-awareness as much as I did before discussing the Greater Deity’s nature with the heathen.
I agree. I was just trying to help come up with a way to find where that correlation breaks, or is countered by other external factors. A trivial example: A mormon dentist who is extremely irrational about religion, and yet exceedingly rational about tooth decay.
I like to think of myself as a protoBorg: I seek the strengths of other people, and add them to my own. Except since I’m much more bounded than they are, I often just make a note that if I am interested in increasing my uniqueness in the field of X, then I could start by talking to Person B.
So getting back to that, I would say that instead of ignoring the issue, I try to see how the person fits in a network of subjects, and mark their reliability up or down in issues where they most closely touch the issue at hand. I still think of Person B as excellent with programming, history, current events, general knowledge. I just don’t trust his self-awareness as much as I did before discussing the Greater Deity’s nature with the heathen.