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What Makes an Expert?
00:01:49
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| So, the answer is, what is an expert? | |
| And that's a fascinating question to me. | |
| A really deeply fascinating question. | |
| What is an expert? | |
| Now, in the past, I would say, as a whole, in general, that expertise used to be credentialism. | |
| You went to Yale, you went to Harvard, you went to Stanford, you went to Oxford, you went to Cambridge, you come out and you've got the four-point hat and you've got the cloak. | |
| Of all of that, and you are an expert. | |
| But tell me if you think this is true. | |
| I think, for the most part, for a lot of people, not for everyone, but for a lot of people, for the most part, credentialism is kind of dead. | |
| Do you agree? | |
| Do you disagree? | |
| Credentialism. Well, this person has a... | |
| PhD, this person is a professor, and therefore this person is correct. | |
| I mean, not for everyone, but I certainly think in this group, certainly for me, I'll just be honest, I view credentialism as a negative now. | |
| To me, it's not just dead, it's like anti-life. | |
| Now, Douglas Murray has an undergraduate degree in English and speaks about all kinds of topics. | |
| In fact, I saw a clip of him not too long ago talking about AI. | |
| I'm not sure how having an undergraduate degree in English qualifies you to talk deeply about AI, but... | |
| So, what is an expert? | |
| I think, to me, an expert is someone who's read deeply in a topic, has thought deeply about a topic, and has absorbed more than one perspective. | |
| Right? I mean, I did a whole presentation, it was available to an NFT a while ago, called The Rise of Nazism. | |
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Experts Got It Wrong
00:04:04
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| And I read an ungodly amount of fairly horrible material at times, and went... | |
| With a variety of sort of understandings and explanations. | |
| And... Oh, congratulations on getting your PhD, my lady. | |
| So I just did a little bit on... | |
| Just a couple of notes here about big things that experts got wrong. | |
| COVID, lockdowns, the vaccine. | |
| If you get it, you can't get COVID. | |
| And a lot of people who got it got COVID even more. | |
| If you get it, you can't transmit it. | |
| Turns out it was never tested for transmission. | |
| Big things experts got wrong. | |
| Global warming, at least in terms of the catastrophes that were predicted in the 80s, totally wrong. | |
| And if you look at all the models versus the actual temperatures, there's really not much in common. | |
| The melting pot, that you can just get a wide variety of cultures and they're going to kind of blend into one goo. | |
| That was foundational to a lot of policies. | |
| Doesn't really seem to be happening. | |
| The IQ research that I was revealing to the world some years ago, the sort of chemical imbalance theory of Mental unease, depression, anxiety, and so on, that you have a chemical imbalance and you take these pills to restore that chemical imbalance. | |
| That appears to be pretty false. | |
| There's a replication crisis in science as a whole, and in particular in psychology. | |
| Experts have seen the rise in autism, and experts are not moving heaven and earth to find a source of autism, although RFK Jr. is now talking about having that data out by September, October, which is going to be interesting. | |
| Although it's fair to say that the diagnosis of autism Has gone up with government money for autism. | |
| Media bias, right? | |
| So these, in the media, mainstream Western media, these are experts who claim to be unbiased. | |
| They're reporters, they're well-trained, they claim to be unbiased. | |
| And I think fairly clearly, it's pretty ridiculously biased, right? | |
| Was it NPR? | |
| I'm sure that they would say that they're objective. | |
| And NPR has, like, no non-democrats in any positions of power. | |
| Feminism is supposed to be about female equality. | |
| And has morphed into female supremacy in many ways. | |
| Almost 60% of university attendees are women now, and there isn't like, oh, we've got to find a way to bring more men back. | |
| It's just going more and more women. | |
| Immigration, certainly what the experts want and what the general population want is quite divergent. | |
| The welfare state solving the problems of poverty has not happened. | |
| And of course, you know, one of the things that I talked about many years ago. | |
| Whereas people in the West were told, oh, there's too many people. | |
| You shouldn't have kids. | |
| And then it's like, oh, we don't have enough people. | |
| We need lots of immigration. | |
| And there's this intransigence to all of this expertise, right? | |
| The intransigence is they just don't admit fault. | |
| You know, one of the things that is really essential for me in terms of credibility as a whole is I need people to admit fault and take responsibility for getting things wrong. | |
| Right? I mean, as you know, I've got a whole series of shows called I Was Wrong About. | |
| Now, I've made my apologies. | |
| Because if you want to be an expert, you have to be able to admit fault. | |
| Otherwise, you're just an ideologue, right? | |
| So, I think people are quite frustrated about all of this stuff. | |
| Yeah, you guys are... | |
| Ability to process source data is my big criteria if you're an expert. | |
| Either source data or in the philosophical realm, being able to make arguments from first principles. | |
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| If somebody says same, if I hear on the news experts say, I assume they're just trying to push a narrative. | |
| Someone says, He says, Dave Murray, I think you mean Douglas Murray, also criticized poor white Americans for being hopeful that Trump would help them. | |
| As if they had any choices, yeah. | |
| Somebody says, trust me, bro, versus my university trusts me, bro. | |