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I think the tldr here is that questions/challenges require significantly less energy than answers for many types of questions; and this is more true the more expertise the answers require.

I think one problem is that expertise have been a bludgeon for a long time and intellectuals have done an awful job of not over reaching their expertise and at sticking to their levels of confidence.

I also think that the once important role of “public intellectuals” and philosophers as critics of everything was an essential role to keeping participants honest. We don’t have this any more.