Sam Harris

And my God, I think that happens less and less now, but some version of that keeps happening and it may always keep happening in every area of expertise, right?

Yeah.

So it's true that truth is orthogonal to the reputational concerns we have among apes who are talking about the truth.

But it is also true that most of the time,

Real experts are much more reliable than frauds or people who are not experts.

And expertise really is a thing.

And when you're flying an airplane in a storm, you don't want just randos coming into the cockpit saying, listen, I've got a new idea about how we should tweak these controls.

You want someone who's a trained pilot, and that training gave them something, right?

It gave them a set of competences and intuitions, and they know what all those dials and switches do, right?

And I don't, right?

I shouldn't be flying that plane.

So when things really matter, and putting this at 30,000 feet in a storm sharpens this up,

We want real experts to be in charge, right?

And we are at 30,000 feet a lot of the time on a lot of issues, right?

And whether they're public health issues, whether it's a geopolitical emergency like Ukraine, climate change, I mean, just pick your topic.

There are real problems and the clock is rather often ticking

And their solutions are non-obvious, right?

And, and so expertise is a thing and deferring to experts much of the time makes a lot of sense.

It's at minimum, it, it prevents either spectacular errors of incompetence and, and, uh,

just foolhardiness, but even in the case of some, where you're talking about someone, I mean, people like ourselves who are like, we're well-educated, we're not the worst possible candidates for the Dunning-Kruger effect.