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A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Okokimup 18 points 10 months ago

The curse of knowledge

[–] BrotherL0v3 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD

[–] cheese_greater 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I see the image!

[–] cheese_greater 3 points 10 months ago

![relevant](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png)

*[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2501/)*

Use the format as given here without the backticks like this

[–] cheese_greater 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also “theory of mind failure”

[–] cheese_greater 1 points 10 months ago

Could also be "bad storyteller" lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] flubba86 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] TeaHands 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] TokenBoomer 1 points 10 months ago

Incommunicado

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

'not seeing the forest through the trees'?