This is an even bigger trend within programming, which explains why the tech right and the religious right have become fast friends.
![[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in equations and diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o7xt7svg2xtjbb4e2xqahqqc/bafkreiamalbxbfpbwsoyu7estybnughhtmupzdgf2qdeuc4w7u7ddhdczm)
@juliusgoat.bsky.socialI wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
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Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
