I think managing the exclusiveness that comes with expertise is one of the core challenges of our time. No physicists shouldn’t have to hang out with randos and debunk yet another perpetual motion machine. But letting experts self-segregate entirely is a source of catastrophe. 1/

I think there are institutional approaches we can take to maintain a social infrastructure of expertise that is broadly inclusive even while not depriving you of conversation with other specialists or wasting too much of your time interacting with novices. /fin