As someone who is an expert in one area and as dependent as anyone else in others, and who also hates appeals to authority -

To me, the correct stance is that any should be able to question things that don't make intuitive sense or that one suspects might be a perspective motivated by financial considerations instead of expertise.

Note that I said question. Not invent your own replacement fever-dream explanation.

Questions require good-faith attempts to find information and understand.

Not pitch something where its main virtue is that it makes ignorance feel good actually.

I dont mind if people stream but sometimes the exaggerated thumbnails with their stupid exaggerated expressions is so fucking weird. Like it smells like LOOK AT ME.

they basically started the whole pseudoscience movements, a couple of fake diseases: morgellans, Chronic lyme was all coined by midwestern moms having psychosomatic, delusional parasitosis events. i went to other forums, and the symptoms they described are not of infectious diseases, by some mental illness they describing.

Good luck making the pigs stop eating slop

Maybe we shouldn't perpetuate dunning-krugerization such that everyone feels they fully understand the effects of a magnetosphere on orbital mechanics after a one paragraph explanation. The sense of 'ownership' and 'mastery' people seem to have of a field after ~~ingesting~~ licking like two facts is really disappointing.

Based on what I see in this thread, I find more of an issue to be media. Mainstream media can walk the line of truth and falsehood and make people think a certain way. Anyone who sees that can be redirected to an online source, which can be anybody from Jane/John Infantbrain to legitimate scientists. Being an influencer doesn't preclude being a specialist, academic, etc., but the average person isn't going to determine or care for the difference.

You say this, but I got banned from a sub for being a corporate shill for trying to explain to what I'm pretty sure was a 13 year old kid that AI is not going to dissapear and that it's not just a fun toy used to make shitty TikTok videos

I would explain what AI Agents were and how they worked and what they did and I was told I was a troll that like to suck my bosses dick... and then I was banned

My job? Software engineer. Been one for over 20 years.

Those same people that called me a troll, a shill, a company man that liked to suck my bosses dick; the mods that banned me; they are all probably here right now talking about how stupid it is that people don't listen to experts...

Idiocracy has become a documentary.

Masters degree in AI here.

Every day I feel like medical specialist during highest anti-vax craze. No matter what I say, no matter what kinda research and articles I cite social media and advertising simply scream louder and more often.

Says someone on alt right pedo platform Twitter. He's not wrong, but come on. The irony.