There are secretly three kinds of experts

# Experts should have proficiency even if their primary function is to exercise power or speak to a platform
An expert obviously does not need to be the most proficient person in the field, so there is some ‘minimum viable proficiency’ that varies by field. If an expert has insufficient proficiency, they have no intuition for the dynamics and affordances of their domain. ( [[Understanding a thing has to do with intuiting the affordances of a thing]].) If an expert can’t intuit the affordances of their domain, they are either limited to repeating verbatim what they learned from other experts, or making shit up. 

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# How can you tell if an expert has a minimum level of proficiency to wield power or speak to a platform?
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