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Argument from Authority
The reasoning fallacy of treating a claim as more credible simply because of the status or position of the person making it, rather than their demonstrated expertise in that specific claim's subject matter.
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… Um I mean there's a narrow point here which is that I would place I don't like argument from authority. And I don't think the fact that you run an AI lab suddenly gives you or rather and if you're going to use argument from authority…
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Argument from Authority
The reasoning fallacy of treating a claim as more credible simply because of the status or position of the person making it, rather than their demonstrated expertise in that specific claim's subject matter.
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… Um I mean there's a narrow point here which is that I would place I don't like argument from authority. And I don't think the fact that you run an AI lab suddenly gives you or rather and if you're going to use argument from authority…