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I'm fairly certain that's actually horrible advice. It boils down to "substitute your judgement over professionals on those problems that are hardest."
More like "discount status on problems where expertise is a poor predictor of accuracy".
I think this steelman is not quite true to the spirit of the original. The contrast he draws between "using a model" and "looking at data like a scientist" is especially strange. One wonders what he thinks of meteorology.