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In this thread: people who have literally no idea what they're talking about spouting off. I hope it isn't this bad when I read things about other fields.
by et2o 10y ago
In this thread: people who have literally no idea what they're talking about spouting off.
I hope it isn't this bad when I read things about other fields.
- therobot24 10y agowhat do you mean, i bet some of these guys launched a landing page about a medical startup app that got at least a series A...
- josephpmay 10y agoIt's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
- mej10 10y agoThat is a basic tenet of the computer career personality. They've been rewarded for how smart they are their entire lives, so they think they can understand things completely by reading a few paragraphs about it. Even worse if they have one life experience that somehow totally justifies their view of an entire field that varies _dramatically_ from provider to provider. It is the same reason every software person living around SF thinks they are economic geniuses because they got rich by being lucky. The anecdote about a motorcyclist bringing up a medical error causing a fellow motorcyclist to die -- as if this somehow makes riding a motorcycle safer? What the actual fuck. Spend a few days observing a large trauma ICU and they will rethink their story about motorcycles. People have no fucking idea.