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Humans aren't very aware of their limits, either.

Even the Dunning-Kruger effect is, ironically, widely misunderstood by people who are unreasonably confident about their knowledge.




But you know if you have ever heard about call by name or value semantics.


You've only ever seen people get upset about technical jargon they know they don't understand, but also never seen people misuse jargon wildly?

The latter in particular is how I model the mistakes LLMs made, what with them having read most things.


Yes, Dunning-Kruger's paper never found what popular science calls the 'Dunning-Kruger' effect.

Effectively, they found nothing real but a statistical artifact.




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