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The older I get, the truer this becomes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conversely, if you actually are an expert on a specific subject, reading any comment thread about it is very disheartening and will leave you wondering how much bullshit you've accidentally ingested and taken at face value from other threads about which you are less knowledgeable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This phenomenon was coined Gell-Mann Amnesia. Sometimes people will ingest content uncritically even when the source has been wrong in the past on subjects the people are knowledgeable about.