Expert: Years of domain expertise beat IQ130+ laypeople's first-principles slop
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-04
Quoting @apralky: nothing disillusion you about first-principles slop like spending years building expertise in a field and then watching IQ130+ laypeople opine during a hype cycle. The author jokes that boomers will be vindicated on one thing — their cult of domain experience.
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