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by uoaei 1157 days ago
That's like saying you understand state-of-the-art CFD code because you can read Fortran.

There are many aspects to learning systems that we still don't have any kind of grasp on, and will take more than a little advanced math (statistics/probability theory, transport theory, topology, etc.) to understand as a community.

Dunning-Kruger is probably more common in spaces like this one, where people carry social capital for being able to "spin up quickly". But the true meta-skill of upskilling is turning unknown unknowns (UU) into known unknowns (KU), and then into known knowns (KK). It's not enough to just jump from UU to KK through osmosis by reading blog posts on a news aggregator, because there will still be a huge space of unknowns not covered by that approach.