I think the problem with being willing to throw away your model for an expert opinion is that it means, taken literally, you’d be willing to keep replacing your opinion as more experts (of differing opinions) talked to you, without understanding why. Right now, I view “respected expert disagrees with me” not as “they have higher status, they win” but as I should figure out whether I’m missing information.
What I had in mind would, for example, in the case of AlphaGo mean throwing away part of my opinion on “how valuable a position is” and replacing it by AG opinion. That does not mean throwing away your whole model. If done in a right way, you can integrate opinions of experts and come with better overall picture than any of them, even if you miss most of the information.
I think the problem with being willing to throw away your model for an expert opinion is that it means, taken literally, you’d be willing to keep replacing your opinion as more experts (of differing opinions) talked to you, without understanding why. Right now, I view “respected expert disagrees with me” not as “they have higher status, they win” but as I should figure out whether I’m missing information.
I think most disagreements are about missing information.
What I had in mind would, for example, in the case of AlphaGo mean throwing away part of my opinion on “how valuable a position is” and replacing it by AG opinion. That does not mean throwing away your whole model. If done in a right way, you can integrate opinions of experts and come with better overall picture than any of them, even if you miss most of the information.