"For [DOJ antitrust head] Kanter, mixing advocacy with expertise doesn't create expert advocacy – it obliterates expertise, as least when it comes to making good policy. This mixing has created a 'crisis of expertise…a pervasive breakdown in the distinction between expertise and advocacy in competition policy.'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/#incentives-matter
cf me "Authority minimization" https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/09/authority-minimization/index.html