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@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
The curse of knowledge
BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Relevant XKCD
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
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
zzzz@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I see the image!
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
*[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2501/)*Use the format as given here without the backticks
like thischeese_greater@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
out of touchintensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Also “theory of mind failure”
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Could also be "bad storyteller" lol
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz · 8 pts · 2y
Expecting short inferential distances https://www.readthesequences.com/Expecting-Short-Inferential-Distances
TeaHands@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
There probably is an official term, but "bad communicator" also works.
flubba86@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I would say that someone is "in too deep" or something about "contextually saturated" or "contextually normalised".
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Incommunicado
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 0 pts · 2y
'not seeing the forest through the trees'?