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Common usage doesn't typically meet that specific definition: “If you are really, really stupid, then it’s impossible for you to know you are really, really st
by nyrikki 3y ago
Common usage doesn't typically meet that specific definition:
“If you are really, really stupid, then it’s impossible for you to know you are really, really stupid.”
Typically it is used to describe when people who don't have complete knowledge about the nuances of a problem or have opinions based on bad information or bad assumptions confidently or aggressively state positions and that confidence is confused with competency.
LLMs are a good example of the colloquial use. They are confident, superficially competent but almost always wrong in specific domains.
It is a problem when people underestimate their blind spots.
Building culture that allows all coworkers to safely raise consent and learning to depersonalize feedback helps with that.
It may not have as popular of a label, but it is well documented in fields like human factors.