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Appeal to authority is not the same as appeal to expertise. An expert does have a better shot at knowing. Appeal to authority is saying "climate change doesn't
by toxik 7y ago
Appeal to authority is not the same as appeal to expertise. An expert does have a better shot at knowing. Appeal to authority is saying "climate change doesn't exist, the US president denies it", appeal to expertise is saying "artificial general intelligence is not coming soon, Michael I. Jordan denies it".
- m0zg 7y agoPlease explain how this "authority" could write an article which does not mention any of the candidate drugs currently undergoing human trials, yet spends an entire paragraph on "orange man bad".
- inshadows 7y agoYou're just using expertise as synonym for authority.
- toxik 7y agoThat is explicitly what I'm arguing _against_.