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Re:In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way ... by hef19898 on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:51AM (#39642179)
Before you give advice, you ask questions and build the necessary basis that allows you to adopt your knowledge to the particular use case. If you do not do that, you fail. You even fail with good ideas, because you do not get buy in from the people.

So yes, hubris is a rather good word for that kind of behaviour.

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Re:In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way ... by godshatter on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:16AM (#39642513)
Sure, asking questions and building rapport helps... and we have no idea if they did that or not. We don't know how they came about giving their advice to those particular people, we don't know what that advice was, and we don't know why they refused to heed it.

Even if I had the urge to judge them on whether or not they were showing hubris in that situation, I would have to conclude I don't have enough information to do so.

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