<story><title>Epistemic Minor Leagues</title><url>https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-leagues</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&amp;gt; politics: that rare area where there are no real experts, and it&amp;#x27;s every man for himself&lt;p&gt;There are experts, but things are so politicized that everyone dislikes them (the acts don&amp;#x27;t agree with anyone&amp;#x27;s partisan position) and reads what is appealing. I think that was the OP&amp;#x27;s point, but it&amp;#x27;s a dangerous  notion to think we all know politics roughly equally well.&lt;p&gt;Political science can be highly informative and predictive, as can research in adjacent fields such as international relations. It transforms my understanding of what others are saying (with partisans being reliably absurd).</text></comment>
<story><title>Epistemic Minor Leagues</title><url>https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-leagues</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmdulaney</author><text>&amp;gt; Their only hopes of being taken seriously as an Expert - a position our culture treats as the height of dignity - is to create a complete alternate system of knowledge, ungrounded in any previous system, where they can end up as an expert on the Lizard Papacy.&lt;p&gt;This is true, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure that viewed from the larger perspective this is an unalloyed good. Sure we can do without crackpots. But do we really want the only voices that matter to be those belonging to persons with &amp;quot;PhD&amp;quot; attached to their names?</text></comment>