Monday, 12 June 2017

The Crisis Of Expertise

quote [ In a 2015 story that seemed to encapsulate the death of expertise, an eighth-grader named Rebecca Fried claimed that Jensen was wrong, not least because of research she did on Google. She was respectful, but determined. ‘He has been doing scholarly work for decades before I was born, and the last thing I want to do was show disrespect for him and his work,’ she said later. It all seemed to be just another case of a precocious child telling an experienced teacher – an emeritus professor of history, no less – that he had not done his homework.

But, as it turns out, she was right and he was wrong. Such signs existed, and they weren’t that hard to find. ]

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[by knumbknutz]
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foobar said @ 7:55pm GMT on 12th June
Part of the problem is that really, we're pretty young as a species, but no so young that there are any new frontiers. Take nearly anything, and anyone reasonably intelligent will be able to find some bit that isn't being done all that well.

That doesn't mean they can usually single handedly revolutionize the whole, because other reasonably intelligent people had already built.

Of course, sometimes they can, which makes it hard to tell whether someone is a nutjob or a revolutionary.


foobar said @ 7:55pm GMT on 12th June
Part of the problem is that really, we're pretty young as a species, but no so young that there are any new frontiers. Take nearly anything, and anyone reasonably intelligent will be able to find some bit that isn't being done all that well.

That doesn't mean they can usually single handedly revolutionize the whole, because other reasonably intelligent people had already built it.

Of course, sometimes they can, which makes it hard to tell whether someone is a nutjob or a revolutionary.



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foobar said @ 7:55pm GMT on 12th June [Score:2]
Part of the problem is that really, we're pretty young as a species, but no so young that there are any new frontiers. Take nearly anything, and anyone reasonably intelligent will be able to find some bit that isn't being done all that well.

That doesn't mean they can usually single handedly revolutionize the whole, because other reasonably intelligent people had already built it.

Of course, sometimes they can, which makes it hard to tell whether someone is a nutjob or a revolutionary.




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