"A cousin of this actor–observer bias is Gell-Mann Amnesia, a concept that comes from Michael Crichton, where he described a strange mental reset."
In his 2002 speech, Crichton introduced the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect to describe how readers notice serious errors in reporting about subjects they understand yet readily trust the same publication on unfamiliar subjects. Coding Is the Easier Part extends this observation to professional expertise and the tendency to overlook hidden complexity in other people's work.
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