Why the Most Valuable Things You Know Are Things You Cannot Say (deadneurons.substack.com)

The article argues that expert judgment can be learned through repeated real-world calibration, but it cannot be fully taught through language because the underlying model depends on high-dimensional inputs and subtle interactions that people may not even perceive until they have experience. It contrasts “book smarts” (knowledge transmissible via explicit rules and frameworks) with “street smarts” (legible outputs but illegible reasoning) and critiques institutions that reward articulacy over predictive accuracy. Overall, it frames the limit as an information-transfer problem and a bootstrapping challenge in developing the perceptual features experts rely on.