Re:The Limits of Expertise
by ThomPete on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:13PM
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Experts know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
Generalists know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything.
The problem with using academic experts is that they are really just "historians" in the sense that they know what we know works and doesn't work or what is right or wrong.
Most of them can't predict the future (which have a lot of radical uncertainty) they only know what has been the case for now and what might be but with a huge deal of uncertainty (economist are some of the worst offenders of this or more precisely politicians usage of economists)
When it comes to politics/morals/geopolitics. No one is an expert other than those who actually make the decisions. You can be factually correct about why you make a decision and yet still make the wrong one.
Technical experts are different as they are dealing with a solid foundation that doesn't include much radical uncertainty.
Generalists know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything.
The problem with using academic experts is that they are really just "historians" in the sense that they know what we know works and doesn't work or what is right or wrong.
Most of them can't predict the future (which have a lot of radical uncertainty) they only know what has been the case for now and what might be but with a huge deal of uncertainty (economist are some of the worst offenders of this or more precisely politicians usage of economists)
When it comes to politics/morals/geopolitics. No one is an expert other than those who actually make the decisions. You can be factually correct about why you make a decision and yet still make the wrong one.
Technical experts are different as they are dealing with a solid foundation that doesn't include much radical uncertainty.