Because wrong advice from either can have serious lasting consequences on your life. Use that as your metric and it becomes obvious. Think “what’s the worse that could happen is this advice is shit?” If the answer is death/sickness/losing your home/another thing you’re not prepared to live with, perhaps consider contacting a professional instead of listening to some rando on Twitter.
> Is it ok to give eg fishing advice?
Are you going fishing for fun on a small pond, or are you going on a dangerous boat expedition that could cost you your life?
> Even professional advice – in all kinds of fields – is often times bad.
Yes, there are incompetent people in all walks of life, but you’re drawing a false equivalence. You’re more likely to get sound advice from a random sample of professionals in an area—especially if it’s a field which requires a license to operate in—than a random sample of laypeople. Additionally, licensed professionals could lose their licenses and have their professional careers cut short (meaning all their years of investment in their craft down the drain) if they’re profoundly negligent, giving them extra incentive to not mess up. A random person doesn’t need to care and suffers no consequences if you take their advice and end up maimed.
Come on, now you’re being deliberately obtuse. If you want to take medical and legal advice from an internet rando, an LLM, or a magic 8 ball, that’s your prerogative. The rationale has been explained to you at length, you’re free to ignore it. No one cares.
Because wrong advice from either can have serious lasting consequences on your life. Use that as your metric and it becomes obvious. Think “what’s the worse that could happen is this advice is shit?” If the answer is death/sickness/losing your home/another thing you’re not prepared to live with, perhaps consider contacting a professional instead of listening to some rando on Twitter.
> Is it ok to give eg fishing advice?
Are you going fishing for fun on a small pond, or are you going on a dangerous boat expedition that could cost you your life?
> Even professional advice – in all kinds of fields – is often times bad.
Yes, there are incompetent people in all walks of life, but you’re drawing a false equivalence. You’re more likely to get sound advice from a random sample of professionals in an area—especially if it’s a field which requires a license to operate in—than a random sample of laypeople. Additionally, licensed professionals could lose their licenses and have their professional careers cut short (meaning all their years of investment in their craft down the drain) if they’re profoundly negligent, giving them extra incentive to not mess up. A random person doesn’t need to care and suffers no consequences if you take their advice and end up maimed.
Not all fields are created equally.