NATS 1760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Tacit Knowledge, Garry Kasparov
14 Nov 2013
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Science, if it can deliver truth, cannot deliver it at the speed of politics (p. 23) The train of a perfect science is always leaving the station just as you get there (p. 23) But: how do we balance science and technology against general opinion (p. 23) We ought to prefer the judgments of those who know what they are talking about. (p. 24) The quality of decisions made on highly technical matters might very well be improved by broadening the array of knowledge producers beyond traditional experts (pp. Reject attributional, relational models of expertise (p. 24) Adopt a realist model: expertise is something you require. In france, everyone can speak frenchh, thus speaking french is not an expertise. Degree of expertise in speaking a language remains the same in whichever country the language is spoken (p. 25) The ubiquity of an expertise is not the absence of an expertise.
