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>It is not intelligent at all to confidently assert false things you know nothing about, and humans don’t do this outside of compulsive liars.

"The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an area tend to overestimate how much they know—and we all have gaps in our expertise." [1]

[1] https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/david-dunning-on-expert...


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jtbaylytoday at 2:28 PM

Doubting if a random quote is correct is understandable given how often the training data has explanations that random quotes from famous people aren’t real. But it isn’t intelligent to proclaim that when you have the internet as a resource.

Nobody that I know would do this.