Perhaps, but this is true of all subjects: Sports, economics, politics, most hobbies, &c. On the one hand, this shows the arrogance of the techie: A belief tha

Perhaps, but this is true of all subjects: Sports, economics, politics, most hobbies, &c. On the one hand, this shows the arrogance of the techie: A belief that since we're rather clever in one application of intelligence, we must be clever at all of them, as if intelligence is the ultimate fungible skill. Intelligence is remarkably handy, and it is a lever: It takes whatever we know and multiplies its value. But it can't do much about fields in which we have little experience. It's simply not possible to have expertise in many fields without actual experience and study in those fields. But we can't resist assuming that whatever people are talking about, we can derive everything of interest from first principles and not from absorbing a body of knowledge that others have assembled over decades or even centuries. But let's not demonize ourselves over it. This is a social forum, a kind of digital saloon. And if we visit real-world saloons, we will find armchair political scientists, armchair coaches for every popular sport, armchair police detectives and so forth. It seems we're just like everyone else, we're just better at sounding articulate when we pontificate upon subjects with which we have little practical experience.