There are fields where I feel confident to have an opinion, and fields where I am entirely out of my league.
HN is full of people like myself, each with their own partially overlapping fields of expertise.
When I see something new, I don't say "well, this goes against my intuition, it must be wrong". I say, "well, this is new, and sounds fishy - but is out of my field. I wonder what real geneticists on HN have to say about it".
There are a world of unintuitive facts that I have learned this way (I plan on making a site of such things, but.. maybe next week).
As they say, be open minded, but not enough to let your brain fall out.
HN is full of people like myself, each with their own partially overlapping fields of expertise.
When I see something new, I don't say "well, this goes against my intuition, it must be wrong". I say, "well, this is new, and sounds fishy - but is out of my field. I wonder what real geneticists on HN have to say about it".
There are a world of unintuitive facts that I have learned this way (I plan on making a site of such things, but.. maybe next week).
As they say, be open minded, but not enough to let your brain fall out.