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by vict7 250 days ago
> relative lower quality in other fields except technology

As a political aficionado, some of the political takes are surprisingly primitive given the seemingly high IQ here.

It reminds me of the phenomenon wherein you trust the articles you read written by journalists, until you read an article where they are opining on a topic you actually know something about… and realize they have no idea what they are talking about.

No hate to anyone, just wanted to provide a perspective on my version of you seeing people talk about medicine.

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Crichton called it the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. HN is such a great resource of brainpower, but too infrequently useful on political issues.