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And you are qualified to express this view how?

yew 6y ago
Experts are usually vetted by regulators and other experts, not random members of the public. As anyone is presently free to say whatever they please, I see no reason to share my personal information with the world.
- vimy 6y ago
  Like the experts who said the virus wasn’t a problem and also that masks are useless?
  - yew 6y ago
    > Like the experts who said the virus wasn’t a problem and also that masks are useless? This being a wonderful example of the right-wing propaganda so prominent (though I won't say universal) in this mess. Cause a problem, then blame others for it. We've all had more than enough of correcting it at every turn. Why not do something about that?
- cbozeman 6y ago
  Do you remember when Hank Paulson said he had the utmost confidence in the stability and resiliency of our markets? Right before a literally historic housing market crash occurred, that then became an enormous stock market crash. How much more of an expert would you want than Hank Paulson, who added billions of value to Goldman Sachs bottom line, who he himself made $1bn working there, and who had been in the financial industry for 30+ years at the time, and who was the Secretary of the Treasury? What kind of "expertise" should he have had in your perfect utopia? I should remind you that Paulson was indeed vetted by regulators, other experts, and Congress, and was widely considered a great choice as SecTres. We see how that worked out. An autistic medical doctor predicted the housing market crash 3 years before Paulson made that statement, so as far as I can see, so much for your so-called experts. In fact, I think if you'll try less to defer to experts and more to defer to history, you'll find a very long list of people who were held in the highest esteem who continually got shit wrong, and very very few who got it right.
- inglor_cz 6y ago
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a lot of material on so-called experts vetted by other experts whose accuracy is no better than a chimp throwing darts.
arthurcolle 6y ago
He has a 3 letter username on HN, obviously he is legit

yew 6y ago

Experts are usually vetted by regulators and other experts, not random members of the public. As anyone is presently free to say whatever they please, I see no reason to share my personal information with the world.

vimy 6y ago
Like the experts who said the virus wasn’t a problem and also that masks are useless?
- yew 6y ago
  > Like the experts who said the virus wasn’t a problem and also that masks are useless? This being a wonderful example of the right-wing propaganda so prominent (though I won't say universal) in this mess. Cause a problem, then blame others for it. We've all had more than enough of correcting it at every turn. Why not do something about that?
cbozeman 6y ago
Do you remember when Hank Paulson said he had the utmost confidence in the stability and resiliency of our markets? Right before a literally historic housing market crash occurred, that then became an enormous stock market crash. How much more of an expert would you want than Hank Paulson, who added billions of value to Goldman Sachs bottom line, who he himself made $1bn working there, and who had been in the financial industry for 30+ years at the time, and who was the Secretary of the Treasury? What kind of "expertise" should he have had in your perfect utopia? I should remind you that Paulson was indeed vetted by regulators, other experts, and Congress, and was widely considered a great choice as SecTres. We see how that worked out. An autistic medical doctor predicted the housing market crash 3 years before Paulson made that statement, so as far as I can see, so much for your so-called experts. In fact, I think if you'll try less to defer to experts and more to defer to history, you'll find a very long list of people who were held in the highest esteem who continually got shit wrong, and very very few who got it right.
inglor_cz 6y ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a lot of material on so-called experts vetted by other experts whose accuracy is no better than a chimp throwing darts.

arthurcolle 6y ago

He has a 3 letter username on HN, obviously he is legit