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Comment author: Jurily 27 August 2014 11:10:08PM 2 points [-]

Is there a name for the following pattern?

  • Argument or just noticing confusion
  • "He looks way too confident, he's probably better at the field or has significant information"
  • Catastrophic failure more or less matching my predictions

I seem to run into this a lot lately, but the alternative of assuming I'm correct seems even worse. I'm also often not in a position to ask about the source of their confidence.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 August 2014 01:34:46AM 1 point [-]

Would you care to post some predictions?

Comment author: philh 28 August 2014 09:39:20PM 1 point [-]

I didn't explicitly make a prediction, but it sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202234 would be an instance of the pattern.