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I agree that authority is a bad way to establish truth. I'm not more likely to consider someone's arguments because they're a "well respected expert".
My approach is a direct response of the problem of having too much information than is possible to process. Whether it's effective is hard to measure.
I think the best we can do is hold our beliefs tentatively and seek out different opinions and be open to new arguments/perspectives.
But that's not to be confused with "explore every position that differs to me". As I said, that is impossible. So when I consider a position counter to my own, I need to maximise the chance I'm going to get some utiliity out of that time.
An ad hominem would be if I said "Kratter is wrong about bitcoin because he's a really bad person!". I'm not attacking his position based on his character or motivations.
What I'm doing is not considering his opinion at all. He could be right, but I won't know because I've got better places to spend my time than considering all the things that cascade out of his piss-stream mouth.