this distinction is something many normies refuse to understand; when you've relinquished epistemic authority to the institutions, it's in your egos benefit to believe you had no choice but to do so
otherwise, your sacrifice of agency was in vain & didn't actually buy security
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RT @robertwiblin
You usually don't need to be a domain expert to evaluate whether the arguments a domain expert is giving for X are internally coherent.
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https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1382670331534528513
while it takes an expert to craft an argument in a domain (external consistency), any reasonably intelligent layman can evaluate whether it makes sense (internal consistency)
experthood lies in one's knowledge of the semantics of a domain language, not formal language itself
