This is at the heart of how conspiracy thinking and crackpottery works. Dunning-Kruger effect turned to media power. twitter.com/superwuster/st
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The second thing is a more narrow subset of the first thing though, no?
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I wonder if, in the future, we'll have an AI assistant that could detect Dunning-Kruger. When activated, before permitting any world-visible action, it would ask us to make predictions based on our "knowledge" and then append our score to any social media posting.
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