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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by parasubvert on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:12AM (#24375074)
There is a pretty good book called “the Death or Expertise” that discusses the broad trend towards people with little specialized knowledge feeling they can learn a domain quickly and know more than experts.

So many problems we have in society seem to be caused by this mass weaponized Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by derivagral on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:42AM (#24375947)
I personally view this as less DK and more just removing fences[1] until the externalizations blow up. By then you've probably moved on or can divert some profit to putting the fences back.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

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