> The thing about subject matter experts is that they’re so good at their subject, they often aren’t aware of what they know.
It isn't quite the same thing, but "tacit knowledge"[1] is similar to this concept.
The difference is that the author is talking about things you don't know you know, where tacit knowledge is for things you know that you may have self-awareness but have difficulty conveying.
My favorite example of tacit knowledge is knife sharpening. Even with hundreds of 4k videos of it on YouTube, it's still very hard to teach because so much of the skill rests on the sense of pressure while you're sharpening, which can't be conveyed in video.
The whole AI paradigm is shifting the tide towards known unknown from unknown unknowns. At least, it feels like it.
narcraft 3 hours ago [-]
“'There are unknown unknowns', and while the idea has been around a while, it doesn’t seem to have a name."
There is a name for it. It's called "radical ignorance".
readthenotes1 3 hours ago [-]
Not according to the people that coined the phrase "radical ignorance".
"While there are different types of knowledge and many ways to make it visible, there are also several types of ignorance and different ways in which it might escape the subject's consciousness. For example, while many instances of ignorance fall into the category
of unknown unknowns, where an agent is not only ignorant about something but also about her/his state of ignorance, other instances of ignorance fall into the category of ignorance in disguise, where an agent is not only ignorant about her/his ignorance, but also mistakes his/her misbeliefs for valid knowledge, i.e. the ignorance is disguised by misbeliefs accounted as knowledge. Radical ignorance is exactly a phenomenon of this last type. It is very difficult to explore radical ignorance; nevertheless, the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning 1999) is an example of how such a phenomenon might manifest itself in everyday life."
There are also things that you don’t know that you know—muscle memory, habit, trauma—you know how to walk but you don’t remember how you figured it out for the first time.
Cognition is like an iceberg and the unconscious is the part that is under the surface—it has vast and unseen depths.
alganet 2 hours ago [-]
Zizek also puts ideology in that realm of unknown knowns.
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It isn't quite the same thing, but "tacit knowledge"[1] is similar to this concept.
The difference is that the author is talking about things you don't know you know, where tacit knowledge is for things you know that you may have self-awareness but have difficulty conveying.
My favorite example of tacit knowledge is knife sharpening. Even with hundreds of 4k videos of it on YouTube, it's still very hard to teach because so much of the skill rests on the sense of pressure while you're sharpening, which can't be conveyed in video.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge
There is a name for it. It's called "radical ignorance".
"While there are different types of knowledge and many ways to make it visible, there are also several types of ignorance and different ways in which it might escape the subject's consciousness. For example, while many instances of ignorance fall into the category of unknown unknowns, where an agent is not only ignorant about something but also about her/his state of ignorance, other instances of ignorance fall into the category of ignorance in disguise, where an agent is not only ignorant about her/his ignorance, but also mistakes his/her misbeliefs for valid knowledge, i.e. the ignorance is disguised by misbeliefs accounted as knowledge. Radical ignorance is exactly a phenomenon of this last type. It is very difficult to explore radical ignorance; nevertheless, the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning 1999) is an example of how such a phenomenon might manifest itself in everyday life."
One of us experiencing irony...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342250736_A_working...
Cognition is like an iceberg and the unconscious is the part that is under the surface—it has vast and unseen depths.