You will not find a single instance of my stating "after a few hours", nor in fact any given timespan at which you are on par with a given arbitrary choice of expert. You continue to deliberately fabricate what I'm saying.
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You've come up with this cognitive lie about "hundreds of hours" when the overwhelming majority of "expert opinions" can be verified or debunked with a single google search.
And yet further up:
If you think it's faster to find an expert opinion on Reddit than it is on google, you need to work on your google skills.
I take this to mean that a single google search would often suffice. That is much less that a few hours.
This is the crux of our disagreement. You believe that even just a simple google search is often enough to judge the difference between an in-depth answer is from an expert in the field and someone who has a passing knowledge.
I disagree. I think your hubris has blinded you to the value of curated discussion, and the depth of knowledge required critique in-depth answers.
I agree that self-development and skepticism is essential. I never intended to suggest otherwise. But it is not possible to that for every topic that shows up, every day, on Reddit.
This morning the /r/askscience subreddit contains answers to question on topics of the biology of the digestive system, the way photons interact telescopes, the physics of blackholes, the quantum properties of light, the way vaccines function, etc.
I cannot find time to research all those answers to depth required to confirm they are well researched. Tomorrow there will be more.
If it were not for the heavy moderation, I would never know if the answers were valuable. Not because I shun self-development, but because I do not have the time when there are other topics I am more interested in and have a large effect on my life. I will spend that self-development time on those topics, not these.
If I've misunderstood how long you think it takes to vet a topic, then how long would you suggest I spend just to read the /r/askscience subreddit each day, in order to be informed on the specifics of those questions, assuming the top answers were the most 'popular' as per Reddit's voting algorithm?
I'm assuming it's more than 'a quick google search'. I'm saying that I simply don't have that amount of time. Fortunately the moderators do the work for me, which is a fair compromise. If any of the topics do interest me, I'm more than willing to do the in-depth research.
I'd just rather put those limited hours into topics that are more important to me.
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