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> You get to be a doctor or architect or whatever by demonstrating to other people who know that you too know That's just describing a test? A (verbal, written

• carapace 4y ago
  I didn't explain my meaning well enough, I apologize. I mean a scenario where the candidate for doctor (or whatever) talks to half a dozen or a dozen doctors who then say "yay" or "nay" and if all of them say "yay" they are a doctor but if any of them say "nay" then they are not (although this doesn't mean that they can never become doctors later, they just have to address the failings first that led to the reviewing doctors to decline to admit them to their ranks.) It's about humans communicating with other humans in a way that is extremely difficult to fake, as opposed to whatever testing system we're using now (that people cheat at) that produces (unreliable) proxies for actual domain knowledge. If you just want to learn tests are unnecessary. If you want to become a doctor the only distinction should be that other doctors must be willing to submit themselves to your care. (This might sound crazy, but the person who is the greatest healer I've ever met IRL is not a doctor and would be laughed at by most of them, yet he can effect miraculous cures of major diseases, among other things. His art is completely off the radar of modern medicine.)