The entire internet has been a Dunning-Kruger amplifier since Altavista and Webcrawler. We're going to keep getting better at it. I recommend the book "The Inf

The entire internet has been a Dunning-Kruger amplifier since Altavista and Webcrawler. We're going to keep getting better at it. I recommend the book "The Information" (2011, James Gleick) for a grounded history of how we've slowly gone from using smoke signals and drums to transmit information to how we crossed the inflection point between being limited in how much information we could consume to instead being limited in how well we could curate the information we consume. Curation will continue to improve, and misplaced confidence is merely one downstream effect. I also recommend, for those struggling with these effects, the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985, Neil Postman, updated in 2005 by his son), to understand the concept of Information Action Ratio - how to best target your curation.