“People are tired of hearing from experts.”

Now, the narrative that gets pushed from that statement is that people wilfully ignore facts and behave based on vibes and feelings because they dont want to deal with reality.

However, I think this clip more accurately reflects it. Anybody can claim to be an expert. Even legitimate experts can simply be bribed or leant on to say whatever you want them to say.

The appeal to authority no longer works because the concept has lost credibility.

Ok, so I am considered somewhat of an “expert” in my rather narrow field. Fine, but anyone my age who’s worked in this field as long as I have would equally be an “expert.”

Somehow two years ago I got onto some kind of list. I had five or six “expert” panel companies pay me* to talk their consultants for an hour. I’ve been offered about 30 of these and done about half.

But here’s the kicker: none of them ever vetted me beyond looking at my seldom to never updated LinkedIn profile. I could be making all this shit up and no one would know. No references checked, not even a cursory background check.

So I guess you could say someone is an expert if someone else calls them that?

• I have the companies donate the payment to charity, but not because I’m a good person but because I do not want any additional USD nexus.

I think it means: “1.a person who agrees with the speaker or author. 2. a person who agree with the speaker or author, and talks shit on youtube.”

We’re just waiting for the dictionaries to catch up with common usage. OED and MW are usually pretty quick though, so it should be soon.

An “ex” is a has been.

A “spert” is a drip under pressure.

are you like, an expert in news?

The problem with expert is we no longer have trust but verify. I feel most organizations just pay for services and assume the other party is a reputable expert because they are accepting payment. In reality “fake it until you make it” seems stronger than every.

Also the idea achieving true mastery or world-class expertise often requires 20,000+ hours of focused, deliberate practice, is often twisted. That is 10 years of regular working full time. But in that time you are not focused or deliberately working on a single goal. Probably closer to 20-25 years in a job I would guess, and that might still be low with the many levels of responsibility we are often required to have.

News grade expert is probably just some one that claims to know more than me.

You must be an insider or perhaps a top official.

Thw word just makes me think of expert village

https://web.archive.org/web/20140114150825/youtube.com/watch?v=LQGrM5HS8vU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=if6INh9tqpk

Its meaning is clear. What’s often unclear is whether its use was appropriate.

Kind of like “consultant”. Just another excuse for a particular class to throw more money back and forth at each other (but not “the poors”).