Thread by @DKThomp

Completely fascinating essay by @AlvaroDeMenard on expertise in the 21st century.

https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1348636606450839556

1. There is something ... interesting ... about the fact that evidence of expert infallibility is falling (recall: "masks don't work") at the same time that demand for infallible expertise is rising ("social media platforms should just delete everything that isn't true").

2. The Internet creates a kind of magic-eye theory of reality—you can find The Real Truth if you just look hard enough!—at the same time that real expertise is getting harder and harder to come by, because of rising knowledge burdens in science.

So many interesting implications, but I think this is the question that stuck with me: How do we achieve and recognize expertise in an information environment where everybody feels like they have equidistant access to truth?

fantasticanachronism.com/2021/01/11/are…