posted on February 13, 2019 02:52 AM by
u/completely-ineffable
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Oh man, that thread is great. They came up with a new term,
‘credshaming’. I suppose that’s a better term than ‘my massive ego
wouldn’t allow me to understand the basics before airing my own
half-baked opinions’.
So is credshaming when you shame someone for not having credentials, or for having credentials but in another field? Linguistically should be the latter I guess but it's not clear.
You misunderstand. Paul Graham is lamenting that brilliant polymaths like himself get smacked down for thinking being good at *X* makes them good at everything. Yudjowsky's retweet can presumably be taken to indicate he relates to this feel.
Okay that makes more sense.
Graham's tweet still totally ignores the legions of people everywhere with a myriad of interests who are too curious and enthusiastic about learning to come off as arrogant about unfamiliar fields.
And christ that‘s pretty damn hard for these people.
Exhibit A: the dude who kept insisting “vulva” was interchangeable with “vagina” with his “corrections“, even attempting to “correct” a female gynecologist insisting her expertise was “unnecessary“.
Oh man, that thread is great. They came up with a new term, ‘credshaming’. I suppose that’s a better term than ‘my massive ego wouldn’t allow me to understand the basics before airing my own half-baked opinions’.
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Subterranean self-awareness on EY’s part for retweeting this without realizing the “make you think you know everything”-part applies to him.
Ultracrepidarianism is a hell of a drug.