Nobody seems to have a problem accepting that there is a knowledge asymmetry between bitcoiners and nocoiners. Bitcoiners tend to accept that nocoiners, for whatever reason, don't get it. I imagine that many nocoiners have complained that bitcoiners are arrogant and are treating nocoiners as dumb.

I think I could uncontroversially use this quote in relation to nocoiners here: "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

What some bitcoiners don't get, in my opinion, is there is knowledge asymmetry between bitcoiners themselves. Specifically, between the technical and nontechnical.

Many nontechnical people think they know more than they do, or think the little insight they do have makes them qualified on technical issues. The hard truth is it doesn't.

In my opinion, people generally underestimate the amount of knowledge required to do something like bitcoin development. It is gargantuan. Without that, you cannot understand the technical discussion, distinguish the strong arguments from the weak. And that assumes your mum popped enough tylenol when pregnant to give you the brain required.

So I say again, but about nontechnical bitcoiners: "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

The good news is that I don't think people need to. There is a wide variety of bitcoin devs from different backgrounds with different views.

If a genuine questionable change was being pushed, we can rely on a subset of them (i.e. more than one) to raise the alarm.

This is why I'd say we want as many devs as possible: lots of funding, and reduce the pressures and demands on them so they can speak their minds. If bitcoin development is insufferable, you'll get less devs, less ethical devs, making a bad change less likely to get called out.