Labels like "science" & "expert" are now mostly just a superficial veneer used to obfuscate authoritarian tendencies & intellectual bankruptcy.

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What are the recommendations for when people actually do lack the capability to come up with a higher certainty answer?

Maybe that’s 99% of humanity for a given question, maybe it’s 30%. I’d argue it’s not less than 20% for many questions of interest though. And I’d also argue that people vastly overestimate their capability to do this even usually when accounting for this rule.

What then?