Slouching Towards Oblivion

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Today's Quote


Dunning-Kruger strikes again.


This is pretty close to a much broader charge of False Consciousness, but we gotta be able to address it - we can't fix it if we don't know there's something wrong with it.


We all have pockets of incompetence; we're all susceptible to the effects of Dunning-Kruger.

What we have to do is go outside our own spheres of delusion (ie: talk to other humans), test our thinking against what others are thinking, establish some kind of baseline parameters of fact, and then get to an understanding that the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know.


(that "baseline parameters of fact" thing is where we seem to get kinda hung up)

hat tip = FB friend LM-M

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