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1. bborud+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-02 12:08:57
> Elon strikes me as worse because he likes to think he understands > what his engineers know.

Early on in my career I had a name for this. I called it "gamle helter" in Norwegian which roughly translates to "old heroes". An "old hero" is someone who used to be competent in a field, has stopped being competent, doesn't recognize this themselves and is now a nuisance to anyone who actually knows what they are doing, but can't pull rank. One way to become an old hero is typically to end up in management and not practice whatever discipline you think you understand.

To be fair, I highly doubt that Musk was ever a competent software engineer, much less a good engineering manager. He is a PR person. He sells an image that he is a technology person.

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2. bernie+6f[view] [source] 2023-07-02 14:10:38
>>bborud+(OP)
Elon is the imposter.
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3. bileka+tj[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-02 14:43:00
>>bernie+6f
I'm not seeing the imposter side of things personally but maybe he does come across like the old addage : dumb people think they know everything, smart people know they know nothing. Or something to that effect.
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4. bigwav+3l[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-02 14:55:34
>>bileka+tj
I think the parent comment was jokingly making a reference to "Among Us", a game that spawned millions of memes about "the imposter". But my assumption could be wrong.
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5. y0ink+7s[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-02 15:36:44
>>bileka+tj
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, paraphrased by Bertrand Russell as "The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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6. ackfoo+289[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-05 05:22:02
>>y0ink+7s
Almost everyone is under (the folk version of) the Dunning-Kruger effect about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Since you linked Wikipedia, I'll quote it.

> Nevertheless, low performers' self-assessment is lower than that of high performers.

> Among laypeople, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as the claim that people with low intelligence are more confident in their knowledge and skills than people with high intelligence.

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