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A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Is there a term for that phenomenon where someone gets so far into a topic that they become unaware of how much contextual knowledge they have about it?

Then they write some inscrutable technical docs, use unexplained acronyms, or tell a story about “he”, "she’ and/or “they” where you have no idea who they’re talking about.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago

The curse of knowledge

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Relevant XKCD

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    relevant

    Relevant XKCD

    Edit: is there no way to get a thumbnail to render this, can the image be found and linked to rather than page?

    Edit2: can we get a bot that autoconverts links and stuff to this, people would just have to remember to input the image url not the page in which it appears

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    • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
    • uncommunicative/inarticulate
    • jargon
    • abstruse
    • overspecialized/hyperspecialized/overeducated
    • genius/crackpot/eccentric
    • ignorant (of their comparative knowledge to regular folks or other professionals who are noy)
    • lack of self-awareness
    • echo chamber
    • ivory tower (dweller)/
    • out of touch
    • élit(e|ist)
    • academic ;)
    • for talent: blindly gifted
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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Expecting short inferential distances https://www.readthesequences.com/Expecting-Short-Inferential-Distances

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    There probably is an official term, but "bad communicator" also works.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    I would say that someone is "in too deep" or something about "contextually saturated" or "contextually normalised".

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    My best guess is the curse of knowledge or curse of expertise: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/498010/lack-of-understanding-another-persons-lack-of-understanding

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Incommunicado

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    'not seeing the forest through the trees'?

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