Will_Sawin comments on The Outside View Of Human Complexity - Less Wrong
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A more charitable explanation is that people accurately estimate the total complexity and then apportion it among the known unknowns, thus creating an overestimate.
Thanks for this comment. Very parsimonious. Makes having written the post worthwhile.