About Being Wrong

Regular Programming

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