Other people are using words like "arrogance", "fanboyism", but there's a fun, short, free book on the question, "Under what circumstances are you justified in

Other people are using words like "arrogance", "fanboyism", but there's a fun, short, free book on the question, "Under what circumstances are you justified in choosing to avoid epistemic modesty and assert that you know better than experts?" It's Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://equilibriabook.com/inadequacy-and-modesty/ https://equilibriabook.com/inadequacy-and-modesty/ Yudkowsky agreed with a small group of economists, and disagreed with the Japanese equivalent of the Federal Reserve. You might think, "The Japanese Federal Reserve has every incentive and resource to be correct about growth policies, and this small group of economists has no insight they don't have," but the story is more complicated than that.