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Well, HN could stand for Hubris News. There do seem to be a lot of people around that seem to think that they are smarter in every field than actual experts in
by irrational 4y ago
Well, HN could stand for Hubris News. There do seem to be a lot of people around that seem to think that they are smarter in every field than actual experts in those fields.
- BurningFrog 4y agoThere may be a forum somewhere where those people don't post, but I have not yet found it.
- spoonjim 4y ago
- freemint 4y agoWow. Hubris found. Do you mean experts when you say experts or are you limiting yourself to "experts in the USA"? Because i am quite certain you would not out do the experts running Taiwan or Japan.
- spoonjim 4y agoI do mean “experts” in the USA
- not_kurt_godel 4y agoWhat specific examples are you talking about?
- spoonjim 4y agoWhen Fauci said there’s no need to wear a mask in February, I was buying up N95s. When the CDC waited six months to declare COVID airborne, the rest of the world knew it was. When schools shut down, any discerning parent could tell that the damage to the kids would be severe and all parents who could afford to, like me, sent their kids to private school (I couldn’t get my kids into a local public school so I moved to a different state during the pandemic so that that they could attend school). When they said the kids vaccine should be given three weeks apart I did the reading and learned that it’s much more effective if spaced further apart. I am not arrogant enough to believe that I am some kind of Isaac Newton level genius. All I did was think for myself.
- everdrive 4y agoIt's also hard not to be that person every so often. Lots of things seem simple when you don't know anything about them. If every commenter on HN makes this error only once a year (which seems generous!) I bet we'd still see this problem a lot.