• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    In a vacuum, appealing to authority is fallacious. An idea must stand up on its own merits.

    IRL, things get fuzzy. No one has the expertise and time to derive everything from first principles and redo every experiment ever performed. Thus we sadly have to have some level of trust in people.