Perhaps unfairly, I decided not to include really knowing Harry Potter plots as relevant expertise

One of the keys to understanding Silicon Valley's profoundly dysfunctional culture is the bizarre antagonism toward expertise. You can find this stated explicitly in places like the techno-optimist manifesto and manifesting itself in the decision to hand countless important positions to men in their early twenties with no relevant expertise, and sometimes no apparent expertise whatsoever.It is an article of faith in this world that tech bros know more about medicine than doctors, more about finance than bankers, more about education than teachers, more about climate science than meteorologists, and the list goes on. It is no coincidence that the push for hydroxychloroquine started with Elon Musk and Larry Ellison.This would not be so bad if the press approached the opinions of Musk, Peter Thiel, and Mark Andreessen with an appropriate degree of skepticism, or at least some effort to bring actual experts into the conversation. Unfortunately, the combination of ill-informed but endless…