I suspect that the individuals who are downvoting curi’s remarks in this subthread here are doing so because much of what he is saying are things he has already said elsewhere and that people are getting annoyed at him. I suspect that his comments are also being downvoted since he first used the term “authority” and then tried to make a distinction between “expertise” and “authority” when under his definition the first use of such an argument would seem to be in what he classifies as expertise. Finally, I suspect that his comments in this subthread have been downvoted for his apparent general arrogance regarding subject matter experts such as his claim that “I can sometimes think better than experts, in their own field, in 15 minutes.”
I suspect that the individuals who are downvoting curi’s remarks in this subthread here are doing so because much of what he is saying are things he has already said elsewhere and that people are getting annoyed at him. I suspect that his comments are also being downvoted since he first used the term “authority” and then tried to make a distinction between “expertise” and “authority” when under his definition the first use of such an argument would seem to be in what he classifies as expertise. Finally, I suspect that his comments in this subthread have been downvoted for his apparent general arrogance regarding subject matter experts such as his claim that “I can sometimes think better than experts, in their own field, in 15 minutes.”