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by whimsicalism 1047 days ago
It comes from lesswrong/rationalist circles.

Best to ignore people once you have identified that they are on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve

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No, let's not. I have seen examples here on HN where leading experts in the relevant field have been accused of Dunning-Kruger (I recognized the usernames, the accusers obviously did not). Such accusations are just namecalling and destroy any civilized debate.
Should we be reasoning from last usages of a phrase that you didn’t like or the particular context here?