this just sounds like a disagreement on what left and right means, like which extreme is at either end, many people put fascism and nazism on the left because we are currently further right of them while still being left of anarchism, authoritarianism is a leftist thing, “minarchists”, libertarianism and then anarchism farthest to the right, it’s a measure of authoritarianism where the further left you go the less freedom there is, not the same as left-wing and right-wing in terms of the US Congressional politics

I think they call this the appeal to authority fallacy, it’s the people without expertise in a field that often see the holes in something first, then the holes start glowing after they get hand waved away by smug narrow-minded experts.

> it’s the people without expertise in a field that often see the holes in something first

While it's obvious that everybody makes mistakes and has blind spots, I'd wager that, in general, being more knowledgeable gives you better tools to spot actual holes.

And sure, experts too can be narrow-minded and smug. Just like everybody else.

> And sure, experts too can be narrow-minded and smug. Just like everybody else.

Being an expert always adds a big weakness: You get paid to do this so you are biased.

So no, they are not "just like everybody else", they have spent more time on it so they know some things better, but you can't get away from biases that comes from being paid to do something and that makes experts worse at some other things.

> the people without expertise in a field that often see the holes in something first

No they don't. That never happens. Would you expect someone who knows nothing about programming to identify flaws in a computer language?

Of course not. You expect it will be people who actually understand the field that can identify issues.

it can even happen in software engineering but takes different forms, someone outside sees the problem first because they are looking from a different perspective or due to familiarity with some external factor or edge case of their environment

Example?

and what are you engaged in, appeal to nothingness? appeal to authority isn't a fallacy outside of formal logic, it is just everyday knowledgemaking.

Everyday knowledgemaking is filled with fallacies.

And we make myriad daily mistakes because of them. Most have no real negative consequences, so we don't correct.

also me as an engineer:

I hope it’s the correct 90%!

that’s probably a decent description of how the Mandela effect works in people’s brains, despite the difference in mechanism

this is an objectively funny headline with how it so nimbly jumps from political to technical, “we must stand in a united front against client-side (software feature)” lol

we may alternatively end up with even older elders because of general lifespan increases, it just so happens people with more experience are older, if you think older people being in charge is bad just wait until you see how the younger ones do

in my limited experience using LLMs for side projects it has been a massive creativity cultivator rather than a creativity killer, to such an extent that I don’t understand this take, but perhaps my use case is more nuanced/limited than most?

I see it like this: if you weren’t going to be creative in the first place and you’re just grasping for slop to check a box then there’s no loss, perhaps even a slight gain of creativity, if you are fully engaged in being creative you can now prototype things and preview them and spin off ideas that compound and refine and inspire new ones so much faster so the overall creative output is accelerated both “horizontally and vertically” to borrow from compute scaling imagery

I think there’s been this sudden realization that the media can’t be trusted (for good reason) but people have been so long trusting the news that now they can’t accept the true reality which is NOT KNOWING THINGS and so they go to the internet to fulfill the addiction to a false feeling of knowing what’s going on and think “this must be true instead” but really we all need to accept that we just can’t know things to the extent that the media claimed they had the answers for, and that’s a healthy and good thing to embrace.

Government being “good for business” hasn’t exactly been great for the country or the citizens so this isn’t a surprising sentiment when the pendulum starts swinging back against globalism, though it is a bit ironic considering it’s the right that often is more outspoken about preventing the government from getting in their way. Really the government has become so overblown and over regulating and businesses have adapted to it so much that it became a big machine of corporate fascism with extra steps, and now they are trying to roll it back to the dismay of the people still working within it.

now I want to see ultrasonic fencing