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"How much of your knowledge could you regenerate?"
- fauigerzigerk 19y agoThat's interesting. But I have some doubts. To some degree our knowledge has to be based not on a deep understanding of the matter itself but on a deep understanding about how to determine who (person or process) we can trust in a particular matter. Or rather how to determine what the right balance of trust versus insight is, given limited resources and the importance of the issue at hand. When I go to hospital, do I take a microscope to see if there's some superbug lurking in a corner, or do I look for a reliable source of information about which hospitals have lower rates of hospital acquired infections? Also, I wonder how we could regenerate something like the information we get from our bank about a particular loan contract or other financial instrument. Sometimes facts are created out of thin air and there is no way to derive them from anything. Sure, I can try to understand what kind of business model lies behind loans and what would therefore be within the range of plausibility, but that wouldn't allow me to calculate my repayments for next year.