Application?
This Gell-Mann amnesia effect describes experts who value expertise more than they value truth itself.
There are a lot of people like this.
They’re commonly called “Democrats.”
We need a law regarding too many authors. Maybe the “Author Inverse Cube Law”?
Article Credibility = (number authors)^(1/3)
Rationalizes much of the acceptance by the scientific community of the “climate crisis” fear-mongering. Lots of climatologists buy into it because that’s where they get their funding; lots of non-climatologists buy into it because of the ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect’.
Isn’t this called the competency bias? Where you here newscasters on TV talking technically about a subject, and seemingly having knowledge.. but when they say something within your level of expertise, they sound like f****** idiots.
I see this all the time when they’re talking about computer systems. It was blatantly obvious during talk about how Dominion voting machine computers were secure. When they were clearly incompetent to discuss such a topic
HaHa. Thanks for posting, ‘note.
Self-deprecating wisdom.
Like many people, I have personal and professional expertise in certain fields of knowledge and skill. In other fields, not so much.
When Big Media emits items regarding my fields of expertise, Big Media usually gets things catastrophically wrong.
Therefore, I DO NOT TRUST Big Media on topics which are outside my fields of expertise.