"Do your own research" sounds reasonable but is unreasonable.
- "Do your own research" sounds reasonable but is unreasonable. [nu]
- It assumes a low-trust society where the largest size of thing that can be accomplished is what an individual can do.
- High-trust societies can create emergent value many orders of magnitude greater than one any individual can do.
- High-trust should not be blind trust of course.
- Mechanisms for reputation and credibility are part of the social technology that has allowed modern society to scale so far.
- They're social sifting processes that lead to emergent accumulation of useful truths even out of a noisy, chaotic, swarming process.