overestimate
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For now, the most human thing about humanoid robots may be our tendency to overestimate them.
Never overestimate Europe’s ability to fix its own problems.
The real risk is timing: overestimating job losses, underestimating the long, quiet rewiring already under way, and overlooking the jobs created in the backbone.
That’s a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — you know, the tendency of those willfully or unalterably ignorant to vastly overestimate their abilities and/or intelligence.
From Salon
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the tendency for people to overestimate their level of knowledge in a subject they know little about.
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