In what at least one critic has dismissed as the Dunning Krueger Effect in action, Pastor John MacArthur, of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, claims there is no such thing as mental illness.
In what at least one critic has dismissed as the Dunning Krueger Effect in action, Pastor John MacArthur, of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, claims there is no such thing as mental illness.
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other things. i think musk s fundamental problem is something called the dunning krueger effect which is the tendency of people who are not familiar with the topic to assume it s a lot easier than it looks. and as a consequence, they kind of say, i could do that. i think that s exactly what he s done. i think he said, hey, wait a minute, this can t be that hard, and he looked at the business which was losing i think $4 million a day when he bought it and said i m just going to get rid of all these people because most of them aren t working that hard, which by the way, may have been true. but the point is, they all did something very, very important. and so he s gotten rid of, believe it or not, almost three-quarters of the people if you take the contractors as well as the core employees. almost three-quarters of the people are gone. and as a consequence, all moderation, everything to protect users, everything to protect democracy, has been removed. and he s just winging it. and there s
joy, the fundamental problem here is that we want to think of twitter or facebook or instagram as a public square. but in fact these are private corporations and always have been. twitter in the old days, when it was good, the management team i think had a genuine desire to public service, and even then, they had massive failures and a lot of people got hurt. musk has a very different thing. he s suffering from the dunning krueger effect, which is a psychology thing that basically happens when somebody who knows nothing about a topic overestimates their ability to deal with that topic. and so musk goes in there. he thinks this is a machine and that people don t matter, and he can fire all the people and still make money from the machine. it does not work that way. this is a very fragile thing. a lot of harm is going to be done. i don t think twitter blows up in one sudden cloud of smoke. but i do think what s going on here is incredibly dangerous and as musk gets more desperate, i th