#answers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #answers, aggregated by home.social.
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"I think a lot of people have this weird idea that they need to never express a lack of knowledge. Fake it till you make it? This is very wrong! Simply recognizing when you don't know something is one of the most essential skills on the path to actually knowing what the hell you're talking about."
"Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student."
— Mike Wiser, evolutionary biologist, teaching-track associate professor (knowledge transmitter)
Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped: https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
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