People who know the most often sound the least certain

ranger_danger

"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding." -Sloman and Fernbach Also, the Dunning-Kruger effect still applies to smart people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly; as you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self-estimates.

gjtz

Dude is using AI for a slop-post that complains that AI pundits are not persuasive enough and should take acting classes. Really, the one thing missing in 2026 is more and better AI propaganda!

Grimeton

>The people who know the most often sound the least certain As was beautifully demonstrated in this article.

fasterik

It's revealing that the author thinks that a podcast is the ideal venue to reason through complex technical issues. The "like" phenomenon is less of a verbal fluency issue and more of a cultural one. You can listen to someone smart like Donald Knuth speak and he will definitely stammer and stutter a lot, but he doesn't use filler words. "Like" is more of a West Coast or California thing and I also find it annoying and distracting.

throwrioawfo

Not sure I agree with this. It's often true in SF, but that is largely an affectation, people imitating people like Peter Thiel etc. But not as true elsewhere

samstokes

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - W.B. Yeats

InfiniteAscent

Just a little more effort and STEM people will discover the social sciences. Cute.