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Imho being an expert doesn't allow you to be biased. I would say that the more expert you are in a topic the less biased your voice should be.

• lamontcg 3y ago
  That is sort of nonsensical. Being ignorant and biased is a lot worse than actually knowing what you're talking about.
  • alexmolas 3y ago
    Being an expert and being biased on purpose implies acting in bad faith. Being biased due to ignorance is not a big deal since in principle no one is going to pay you attention anyway.
    • lamontcg 3y ago
      > Being an expert and being biased on purpose implies acting in bad faith. That doesn't even make any sense to me. Like I don't know what to say because I can't understand what you could possibly be trying to say. It sounds like you're struggling hard to create a world where experts need to just shut up while ignorant people get to post whatever hottakes they like. That seems to obviously result in a dystopia of information to me. > Being biased due to ignorance is not a big deal since in principle no one is going to pay you attention anyway. Well that's clearly false, since we just watched in real time all kinds of strong hottakes from people who had spent the weekend researching superconductors on wikipedia getting wildly upvoted here and on twitter because people wanted to believe. IMO that is actually bad because that is how you can delude people and how propaganda can manipulate a population.