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> democratic and meritocratic methods of polling suggest the opinion is harmful? Delete.

This is, in essence, selecting for experts spouting popular opinions. That’s a dangerous incentive model. (All before we even get to the question of delineating the experts.)



it's almost as dangerous as non-experts spouting bad, counterfactual objective claims and pretending they are experts


Which doesn’t sound very dangerous to me


Except that in the last 12 months, people have literally died because they believed non-experts creating and amplifying anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

'I wish I'd been jabbed'...


Thanks for this.

It's like, other people would rather ignore reality, life and death, than budge on their uneducated opinions.

Ego is the enemy.




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