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I think there's a corollary to Gell-Mann amnesia where experts subconsciously believe their expertise in one field transfers to other fields. I've certainly cau
by causal 3y ago
I think there's a corollary to Gell-Mann amnesia where experts subconsciously believe their expertise in one field transfers to other fields. I've certainly caught myself making this mistake, at least.
- meepmorp 3y agoI remember it being both comforting and disappointing to read Plato and find Socrates noting this same phenomenon. We've made many advancements as a species, but in some areas we're largely unchanged from ancient times.
- ngcc_hk 3y agoIf he did not write 2nd and 3rd Socrates …
- jq-r 3y agoNitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that. Its about generally trusting newspapers/journalists and then reading an article about a theme you're familiar with. Then you realize that the journalist is full of it and got things completely wrong. By turning the newspapers page you start reading an article about something you're not familiar with. You immediately forget the BS from the page before and continue reading (probably same sort of BS) from another journalist but this time you're again trusting the newspapers as some kind of good source of truth. I've butchered the explanation, but its described much better here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... PS I've seen this effect many times in my life first hand and its frankly astonishing how much power some journalists wield and some don't even know it.
- 0xffff2 3y ago>Nitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that. Hence "corollary to"...