Dunning-Kruger Effect Archives

2026/06/052026/06/05

The Stupidity Pandemic

There is a lot of food for thought in this video.

It has struck me for sometime now that folks are more than willing to outsource their cognitive work to computers or other people. With the invasion of AI (Artificial Intelligence), things are only going to get worse, much worse.

And no, the irony of my finding this video on YouTube is on not lost on me. After all there is a reason that the YouTube rabbit hole is a well known phenomenon. Nor is the irony of the authors of this video pushing their other videos to keep you engaged. Nor is the irony of my silly little blog screaming into the black hole of cyberspace, although I try very hard to keep my facts straight.

If you saw any of the Alien movies you will remember the Facehugger aliens. I am not sure there is a lot of difference between them and our cell phones.

Although I worked in technology for 30 years, I am beginning to feel more and more that we have opened up Pandora’s box with computers.

And so it should not go.

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2024/09/182024/09/18

Quote of the Day – David Dunning

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. ” ~~ David Dunning

Oops… sounds like the interior of my cranial chamber.

And yeah that is the Dunning of the Dunning-Kruger effect. As summarized in Wikipedia: “In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task.”

To see more Quotes for Day, visit this link: Quotes for the Day

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