https://www.prindlepost.org/2019/01/knowing-what-you-dont-know/
created by ADefiniteDescription on 18/01/2020 at 20:02 UTC
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Comment by [deleted] at 18/01/2020 at 23:13 UTC*
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Beyond the Dunning-Kruger effect - thinking that we know what we don’t - there is hubris, arrogance of thinking we know it all. “People who lack intellectual humility – those who are overly boastful, or who refuse to acknowledge their own shortcomings regarding what they do not know – often seem to be suffering from a defect in character.”
Comment by matter968 at 20/01/2020 at 07:17 UTC
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Sometimes I feel like life is torture because I will never know the secrets of the universe. Like I constantly feel like there is much more going on than we know and that we are being deceived by something. Is there a name for this or is it just general paranoia?
Comment by HeraclitusMadman at 19/01/2020 at 01:07 UTC
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Ignorance is present in every era just the same as enlightenment. This article neither addresses cause or consequence or critique. It simply states the problem and pursues examples and restates the problem. Conversation could be directed towards the role of public/private primary education, the culture of college and universities, the problem of media platforms curating information by algorithms causing news bubbles, predatory misinformation markets, etc. In effect, this article becomes part of the problem by narrowing a focus on us vs. them mentality instead of observing one society of constituents.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/01/2020 at 15:21 UTC
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Honestly, what does this article contribute?
Comment by LogosIsTheWord at 19/01/2020 at 16:45 UTC
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It is funny how nowdays people search for happynes in material world. Yet our happines can only be reached in world our mind is. We only need to ask ourselfs and we are on good track.
Comment by rootnumber at 20/01/2020 at 11:49 UTC*
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I know what I don't know, but I don't doubt I can know what I don't know.
There are some things I can't know, yet.
Knowing and not knowing is part of life, not knowing something does not make you less apt in the long-term, not knowing something imperative does make you less apt in the short-term.
When I play Rainbow Six, I don't know where the enemies are, and that means I must scout.
If you took all information from the universe, a lot of it can be discarded.
You are not the right species to truly utilize that knowledge.
You only need to know what's imperative, it doesn't matter if you don't know what's not.