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Average humans don't (usually) confidently give you answers to questions they do now know the meaning of. Nor would you ask them.


Ah hum. The discriminant is whether they know that they don't know. If they don't, they will happily spit out whatever comes to their mind.


Sure average humans don’t do that, but this is hackernews where it’s completely normal for commenters to confidently answer questions and opine on topics they know absolutely nothing about.




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