About Being Wrong
About Being Wrong
Wherein polite gentlemen at gaming conventions explain how people didn't have their variables separate enough with regard to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Lars thinks Andreas has drawn the wrong learnings from this.
It's a good idea to be humble … but strong opinions loosely held may not be the perfect thing, either?
Also discussed is the curse of the expert - teaching across a large gap in experience, and how to actually go about changing systems and having better discussions. Have you considered being god's advocate instead of the devil's when in a discussion?
Links
- Gothcon
- The Dunning-Kruger effect
- Autocorrelation
- The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
- Golden ratio
- The curse of the expert
- The halting problem
- Linus Torvalds
- Strong opinions loosely held
- Steelmanning an argument
- Yes, and …
- Two's complement podcast
Quotes
- I attempted to make friends
- Hard to know what you don't know
- If you don't have your variables separate
- They fumbled on the input data
- I think you have the wrong takeaway
- The curse of the expert
- Have you looked at presidents recently?
- Exhaust the universe
- The halting problem of the universe
- Sons of pedagogy
- I feel comfortable, but I don't feel certain
- A really badass judo throw
- I can ignore many things
- A multitude of parts
- Bit by bit, you shift the system
- Taking small stands
- Very happy to be wrong
- God's advocate
- Random ideas, loosely shared
- A good crowd for this question