Re:Are Experts Real?
by dragontamer on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:12PM
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> but your comments smell like you just want to hate on Linus.
> No, you are hyper-focusing on that strawman
Others I've talked to have hyper-focused on that strawman. It isn't Linus I'm necessarily mad at, its his legion of fanboys who make crappy arguments based off of Linus's words.
Its not just the AVX512 example: people copy/paste his opinion on C++, Geekbench, and a whole slew of other issues constantly. Linus's arguments become memes throughout Reddit and are echo'd without analysis.
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But that's what happens when you put an "Expert" on a pedestal. People take their words, meme them out into new arguments, and then they don't necessarily apply anymore in the new situations.
That's my experience with "experts". The expert themselves are real, but the words they say can become warped through discussion to the point where they're meaningless.
> No, you are hyper-focusing on that strawman
Others I've talked to have hyper-focused on that strawman. It isn't Linus I'm necessarily mad at, its his legion of fanboys who make crappy arguments based off of Linus's words.
Its not just the AVX512 example: people copy/paste his opinion on C++, Geekbench, and a whole slew of other issues constantly. Linus's arguments become memes throughout Reddit and are echo'd without analysis.
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But that's what happens when you put an "Expert" on a pedestal. People take their words, meme them out into new arguments, and then they don't necessarily apply anymore in the new situations.
That's my experience with "experts". The expert themselves are real, but the words they say can become warped through discussion to the point where they're meaningless.