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What's interesting is that many people who are considered "experts" are not. There are places where expertise is challenging/impossible to build up because there is no quick feedback loop.

A parole officer will not learn much if 4 years after their decision (one of thousands of decisions they made) they are told it was wrong.

One of my favorite papers: In Praise Of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy And Ignorant Can You Be? by Michael A. Bishop

https://philosophy.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/imported/storage/or...




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