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Thoroughly agree. I've had many conversations with self-described "smart" "autodidacts" who claimed to understand entire fields better after essentially zero s
by drewcoo 2y ago
Thoroughly agree.
I've had many conversations with self-described "smart" "autodidacts" who claimed to understand entire fields better after essentially zero study than people who worked in those fields for a lifetime. They couldn't understand that other smart people studied (often in universities) and devoted years of practical work in those areas and who communicate with one another and might possibly understand what they were doing better than an isolated neophyte.
- tivert 2y agoThat's also a symptom "engineer's disease," where some engineer confuses their expertise in one area (e.g. programming) for expertise in all areas, and proceeds to swagger around like an idiot who thinks his every dumb idea is gold because he knows better than everyone else. Usually the dumb idea is just to assume everything is really, truly like the one thing he knows, and all those stupid experts in the other area somehow just missed that. DAO organizations are a perfect example of that, because their proponents really want code and law to be the same thing (code), without really understanding what the law does and how it is different.