Metacognition
A Socratic know-nothing boasts about metacognition; a friend notes the regular cognition is lacking.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025-04-25-metacognition/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "I don't really know anything about the world. But, like Socrates, I know that I don't know." / A: "So, in short, I'm very good at metacognition." B: "But very bad at *regular* cognition." A: "So people tell me. No idea if it's true."