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Max Butterfield's avatar

Do we need friends and conversation partners? Yes! Do we need experts? Also, yes!

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Twila's avatar

It's down to the context for me -- part of why I have felt comfortable to shift my personal blog toward spitlighting the work of others = it's relatively lower stakes as a hobby social VR platform.

On the other hand when it enters into topics that can have harmful outcomes, say how we handle medical science, that's where giving any voice an equal weight (unless I misunderstand this writing above!) can open the door to genuine problems the same way shutting down voices by only favoring a narrow metric of "expert" might...

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