This talk was mentioned on hacker news this week and inspired my babbling at Saveur this morning. https://slideslive.com/38921495/how-to-know. The talk was delivered at Neural IPS on December 9 and discusses recent research on how people come to believe they know something.
This paper https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/opmi_a_00017 describes the Amazon Mechanical Turk experiment on people becoming certain they understood the boolean rule they were being taught by examples. -- rec --
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