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[toxik]

Appeal to authority is not the same as appeal to expertise. An expert does have a better shot at knowing. Appeal to authority is saying "climate change doesn't exist, the US president denies it", appeal to expertise is saying "artificial general intelligence is not coming soon, Michael I. Jordan denies it".

[inshadows → toxik]

You're just using expertise as synonym for authority.

[toxik → inshadows]

That is explicitly what I'm arguing _against_.