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> I think it's generally not worth paying attention to renowned experts opining about stuff outside their field. I disagree. It is actually sometimes quite ill
by chewz 6y ago
> I think it's generally not worth paying attention to renowned experts opining about stuff outside their field.
I disagree. It is actually sometimes quite illuminating listening to an expert using heuristics outside of his field of expertise. As a mental excercise.
- darawk 6y agoYa, and to add to that, it's often difficult to define what exactly the 'field' is. Is the field biology? Is it statistics? Risk? The anthropology of terrorism? Answering a complex question like "will there be a bioterror event that kills 1 million people" doesn't really fit neatly into any of these categories, because it combines information from a number of fields to synthesize the final answer.