Context: I’m a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP’s from the for-profit “schools”.
So, anyone else in a similar spot where you think you’re kinda dumb, but you know you’re still smarter than robots and people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger graph in your field?
I’m a software engineer, and this is my life. I know I don’t know a whole hell of a lot of shit, but I can sure as fuck tell that a LOT of people I come into professional contact with are largely faking it - and more importantly, don’t admit when they reach the bounds of their actual knowledge.
Yep. My work is dependent on outside contractors who claim big knowledge to get the contract, but then deliver broken code and no documentation. Faking knowledge is more lucrative than having knowledge. And negativity is so structurally frowned upon (you can get fired for not being positive enough) that these grifters rarely get called out.
This is a sign of a broken organization
A broken industry more like. Or a broken economy. You pick.
And this is what enables it to be grifting all the way down.
The only losers are people who are actually competent and don’t lie about their competencies to get ahead.
This is how the Dr. Death guy was able to keep getting jobs. He would basically mess up and kill/maim someone, then he’d get pushed out of one hospital, and go right into another. The same phenomenon occurs in many fields
Same. The only time I realize how much shit I know is when I have to do knowledge transfer to someone else. Other than that, most of the time I feel like I don’t know dick all.