Gregory's ServerLife would be so much happier if more people had the humility to recognize that expertise isn't a single hierarchy of intellect but rather a random walk in a hyperdimensional space that makes fractals look simple in contrast.
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I see this at multiple levels, simultaneously. "You're all idiots and a waste of my time" from tech bros being an all too common example. But it's also the outsiders and newcomers to a field treating its incumbents as some sort of archmage of intellect. (I promise you I'm just as clueless and confused as the rest of us.) "You just think you're better than us" is something I hear from time to time, but never from anyone I've talked with. It's shouted at me from throwaway accounts operated by strangers. And I find that very amusing, to be honest. If I were to correct them, would that not be exercising a perception of superiority--the very false notion I'd be hoping to dispel? What a conundrum! My choice when faced with this sort of interaction has been to try to understand where the other person is coming from, but they never elaborate on why they believe that. @soatok This is exactly why "you just think you're better than us" is used in these instances. It's half projection, half cop-out. It's a known technique to reverse victimhood and then shut the convo down @soatok One of my personal education theory tenets is that learning is inductive before it can be deductive. As you said, we are Roombas bouncing around multidimensional domains of knowledge. Over time, much is discovered, but there's not guarantee of complete coverage, and it certainly doesn't follow, like, the chapters in a textbook. |
@soatok yeah, said like a true R(Ļ):=Ī¦ā1(e2ĻiĻ(1, ā)) on the mandelbrot of expertise š /s