"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding." -Sloman and Fernbach
Also, the Dunning-Kruger effect still applies to smart people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly; as you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self-estimates.
Generally speaking, you can't really tell what someone knows based on their words or actions.
Performative behavior is not a modern phenomenon. Deceitfulness is so effective we're not going to end it by discussing Dunning-Kruger every chance we get. Mere knowledge is not enough to defeat it, and you'll always be sorry when you underestimate your opponents.
> All of these travel further than: "There are several plausible mechanisms here, and the result depends on which bottleneck dominates."
I'd assume the reason that quote doesn't travel is because people are tired of quotes written by AI. I'd rather see a real example here, or at the very least a traditionally-written one.
It's revealing that the author thinks that a podcast is the ideal venue to reason through complex technical issues.
The "like" phenomenon is less of a verbal fluency issue and more of a cultural one. You can listen to someone smart like Donald Knuth speak and he will definitely stammer and stutter a lot, but he doesn't use filler words. "Like" is more of a West Coast or California thing and I also find it annoying and distracting.
Not sure I agree with this. It's often true in SF, but that is largely an affectation, people imitating people like Peter Thiel etc. But not as true elsewhere
Yes, there is a whole world out there outside of SF. As much as we'd like it to be true, arrogance itself cannot be contained by a mere city!
Statistically, the asshole capital of the world really ought to be somewhere in China or India, but the language barrier is too high for most of us to know.
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Performative behavior is not a modern phenomenon. Deceitfulness is so effective we're not going to end it by discussing Dunning-Kruger every chance we get. Mere knowledge is not enough to defeat it, and you'll always be sorry when you underestimate your opponents.
I'd assume the reason that quote doesn't travel is because people are tired of quotes written by AI. I'd rather see a real example here, or at the very least a traditionally-written one.
Really, the one thing missing in 2026 is more and better AI propaganda!
As was beautifully demonstrated in this article.
The "like" phenomenon is less of a verbal fluency issue and more of a cultural one. You can listen to someone smart like Donald Knuth speak and he will definitely stammer and stutter a lot, but he doesn't use filler words. "Like" is more of a West Coast or California thing and I also find it annoying and distracting.
Statistically, the asshole capital of the world really ought to be somewhere in China or India, but the language barrier is too high for most of us to know.
Bertrand Russell
sounds like the ideal entrepreneur to give funding to