Parnell Palme McGuinness
@parnellpalme.bsky.social
Orthogonal; party to many things. Bubble-burster. “Playing the reasonable woman game”, columnist, whisky drinker.
“Generative AI would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect.” Do you see overconfidence in AI? Read: https://smh.pulse.ly/eyxlfbrhrj Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/q3kul0itbc #AI #DunningKruger
Parnell Palme McGuinness | Substack
Party to many things. Always bites off more than she can chew.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“Generative AI would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect.” Do you see overconfidence in AI? Read: https://smh.pulse.ly/eyxlfbrhrj Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/q3kul0itbc #AI #DunningKruger
"If generative AI were a person, it would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect." Do you agree? Share your thoughts below. Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/yezyhcunpm #AI #CognitiveBias
If AI just cut out the middle moron, would that be so bad?
The danger isn’t that artificial intelligence will outsmart us, it’s that humans will be too dumb to use it well.
smh.pulse.ly
August 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"If generative AI were a person, it would be psychology’s perfect case study of the Dunning Kruger effect." Do you agree? Share your thoughts below. Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/yezyhcunpm #AI #CognitiveBias
AI has layers and layers of Dunning-Kruger traps built in. Have you seen people overestimating what AI can do? Share your thoughts! Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/q966imragp Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/wgsjmsx3d8 #AI #DunningKruger
Parnell Palme McGuinness | Substack
Party to many things. Always bites off more than she can chew.
substack.pulse.ly
August 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI has layers and layers of Dunning-Kruger traps built in. Have you seen people overestimating what AI can do? Share your thoughts! Article: https://smh.pulse.ly/q966imragp Subscribe: https://substack.pulse.ly/wgsjmsx3d8 #AI #DunningKruger
"AI has layers and layers of Dunning Kruger traps built in." Have you noticed overconfidence in AI answers? Let’s discuss! Read the full op-ed: https://smh.pulse.ly/xqq7uifisw #AI #DunningKruger
If AI just cut out the middle moron, would that be so bad?
The danger isn’t that artificial intelligence will outsmart us, it’s that humans will be too dumb to use it well.
smh.pulse.ly
August 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"AI has layers and layers of Dunning Kruger traps built in." Have you noticed overconfidence in AI answers? Let’s discuss! Read the full op-ed: https://smh.pulse.ly/xqq7uifisw #AI #DunningKruger
My column: Tim Wilson’s win in Goldstein contains two important lessons for future campaigners. One is about how to best serve a community. The other is how to stick with good policy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
How to beat the teals? The city Liberals now have a template
Tim Wilson’s winning campaign in Goldstein contains two important lessons for future campaigners.
www.theage.com.au
June 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
My column: Tim Wilson’s win in Goldstein contains two important lessons for future campaigners. One is about how to best serve a community. The other is how to stick with good policy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: Albanese’s “progressive patriotism” is central planning with Australian characteristics. A renewed Liberal Party would need to understand the ways in which a low-choice environment limits and oppresses different groups. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
https://smh.com.au/politics/feder…
May 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My column: Albanese’s “progressive patriotism” is central planning with Australian characteristics. A renewed Liberal Party would need to understand the ways in which a low-choice environment limits and oppresses different groups. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly voting to pick their own pockets, undermining their own future prosperity. www.smh.com.au/national/you...
Young voters, stop picking your own pockets
Gen Z and Millennials are quick to cry poor. But they’ve voted for the policies which caused it.
www.smh.com.au
April 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My column: Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly voting to pick their own pockets, undermining their own future prosperity. www.smh.com.au/national/you...
My column: Musk and Navarro are having what is effectively an academic debate about the relative advantages of globalisation and protectionism. Their duel will influence a generation of economic thinkers. www.smh.com.au/national/gfc...
GFC or UFC? This economic prize-fight has us all on the edge of our seats
Economics is no longer boring. Trump’s decision to pick a fight with China is a heavyweight bout for the ages.
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April 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My column: Musk and Navarro are having what is effectively an academic debate about the relative advantages of globalisation and protectionism. Their duel will influence a generation of economic thinkers. www.smh.com.au/national/gfc...
My column: Adolescence is four hours of harrowing watching, following the story of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl. One rainy weekend, my nearly 13-year-old son and I watched it in a single day. He asked me to write this. www.smh.com.au/national/ado...
Adolescence is compelling, but here’s what it gets wrong
This most talked-about British drama raises very important questions, but it also turns a blind eye to uncomfortable truths.
www.smh.com.au
April 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My column: Adolescence is four hours of harrowing watching, following the story of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl. One rainy weekend, my nearly 13-year-old son and I watched it in a single day. He asked me to write this. www.smh.com.au/national/ado...
My column: The longer-term trend of Dutton’s ascent is a reminder that polls are just a measure of current opinion, not a substitute for a decisive leader or a bigger vision. Australians are sick of government-by-focus group.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
If Dutton is to beat Albanese, he must abandon this matchy-matchy phase
Peter Dutton convinced voters he was a credible alternative PM by making difficult choices, not easy ones.
www.smh.com.au
March 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My column: The longer-term trend of Dutton’s ascent is a reminder that polls are just a measure of current opinion, not a substitute for a decisive leader or a bigger vision. Australians are sick of government-by-focus group.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: as the government chucks money at us to buy our votes, we should recognise that we’ve entered the era of pocket money politics. Instead of a transfer from parents to kids, government pocket money is kids subsidising their parents. www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
We’ve entered the era of pocket money politics
And we’ve turned into children – always holding out our hands for money.
www.smh.com.au
March 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My column: as the government chucks money at us to buy our votes, we should recognise that we’ve entered the era of pocket money politics. Instead of a transfer from parents to kids, government pocket money is kids subsidising their parents. www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
My column: Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place
The US president has smashed the Western alliance. But the Europeans are stepping up to spend their own money on their own defence.
www.smh.com.au
March 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My column: Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
My column: Pork-barrelling on childcare is a betrayal of babies and families. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
To win parents’ votes, put their kids first – with childcare that hits home
There’s evidence that children aged under three are more stressed in childcare centres than at home. Working parents need options.
www.smh.com.au
March 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My column: Pork-barrelling on childcare is a betrayal of babies and families. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: Anthony Albanese likes to tell us that he’s been underestimated his whole life. But I’m now coming to terms with the fact that I’ve overestimated him for most of mine. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Albo’s bad timing is becoming its own punchline
Despite the seriousness of the times, Albanese’s prime ministership can only be described as slapstick.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
My column: Anthony Albanese likes to tell us that he’s been underestimated his whole life. But I’m now coming to terms with the fact that I’ve overestimated him for most of mine. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: Thanks to two nurses making casually – they say jokingly – antisemitic statements on social media, Australia has had a terrifying glimpse into a possible future. That future is playing out on the other side of the world in Germany. www.smh.com.au/national/sho...
Should we fear growing separatism? Germany offers a clue
Immigration will be the No.1 issue at next week’s German election, part of a backlash against a well-meaning but ultimately misguided policy of multicultural integration.
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February 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My column: Thanks to two nurses making casually – they say jokingly – antisemitic statements on social media, Australia has had a terrifying glimpse into a possible future. That future is playing out on the other side of the world in Germany. www.smh.com.au/national/sho...
My column: The Sam Kerr and Antoinette Lattouf cases show how wrong the West went when it tried to enshrine the victim-oppressor paradigm in law. www.smh.com.au/national/ker...
Kerr and Lattouf: Questions of race, justice and power
Are our power dynamics fixed or shifting? Are they determined by gender, skin colour or cultural currency? Two current cases provide some hints.
www.smh.com.au
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My column: The Sam Kerr and Antoinette Lattouf cases show how wrong the West went when it tried to enshrine the victim-oppressor paradigm in law. www.smh.com.au/national/ker...
My column: Fathers voted with their left-leaning daughters at the last election. Now, with young men drifting right, will their mothers vote with them? www.smh.com.au/national/you...
Young men are drifting to Dutton. Will their mothers vote with them?
When young women supported the teals at the last federal election, some of their former Liberal-voting fathers swung behind them. Might mothers follow their sons’ lead this time?
www.smh.com.au
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
My column: Fathers voted with their left-leaning daughters at the last election. Now, with young men drifting right, will their mothers vote with them? www.smh.com.au/national/you...
My column: After decades of Green New Deals, Conference of the Parties meetings, United Nations treaties, and DEI schemes in the developed world, Trump 2.0 is about to show us what they cost.
What if it turns out they’ve not been a net benefit, or, worse, a drag?
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
What if it turns out they’ve not been a net benefit, or, worse, a drag?
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
Trump is showing us the true cost of liberalism
Now that Donald Trump is dismantling so many government programs, we might find out their ultimate cost.
www.theage.com.au
January 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
My column: After decades of Green New Deals, Conference of the Parties meetings, United Nations treaties, and DEI schemes in the developed world, Trump 2.0 is about to show us what they cost.
What if it turns out they’ve not been a net benefit, or, worse, a drag?
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
What if it turns out they’ve not been a net benefit, or, worse, a drag?
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
My column: Meta’s offering to Trump is a tech-enabled way of doing foreign policy, in which the messages of the US are pushed directly into foreign electorates, speaking directly to voters. But with the tech bros brokering policy, will Trump really be in charge? www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Trump’s not the tech bros’ puppet master. He may be the puppet
The three wise men – Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg – have turned up at the birth of the new Trump presidency, bearing a gift more valuable than gold: the ability to sway reality.
www.smh.com.au
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My column: Meta’s offering to Trump is a tech-enabled way of doing foreign policy, in which the messages of the US are pushed directly into foreign electorates, speaking directly to voters. But with the tech bros brokering policy, will Trump really be in charge? www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Is it just me or does Bluesky feel more like new LinkedIn than old Twitter?
January 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Is it just me or does Bluesky feel more like new LinkedIn than old Twitter?
My column: Elon Musk is not God, and his judgment is not divine or perfect. He is “everyman” – us, unburdened by shallow empathy, crusading on behalf of victims, but without all the answers.
Yell-at-Parnell.zapier.app has more if you want to chat after reading.
www.smh.com.au/technology/m...
Yell-at-Parnell.zapier.app has more if you want to chat after reading.
www.smh.com.au/technology/m...
Meddling Musk should discover his limitations. He’s not the messiah
How can a multibillionaire be an “everyman”? Elon Musk can – but he should appreciate that this is his strength.
www.smh.com.au
January 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My column: Elon Musk is not God, and his judgment is not divine or perfect. He is “everyman” – us, unburdened by shallow empathy, crusading on behalf of victims, but without all the answers.
Yell-at-Parnell.zapier.app has more if you want to chat after reading.
www.smh.com.au/technology/m...
Yell-at-Parnell.zapier.app has more if you want to chat after reading.
www.smh.com.au/technology/m...
My column and my chatbot alter ego: I joked that opinion columnists can never be replaced by AI – because readers need a real person to hate - and a friend took up the challenge and built a chatbot of me. Try her! www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...
I’m unleashing a chatbot of me. She has a few of my quirks but can go rogue
Ever wanted to yell at this columnist? Meet the virtual “me”. We’ve created her as an AI experiment – if you’re up for the argument.
www.smh.com.au
January 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My column and my chatbot alter ego: I joked that opinion columnists can never be replaced by AI – because readers need a real person to hate - and a friend took up the challenge and built a chatbot of me. Try her! www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...
In the wake of the kerfuffle over Elon Musk penning an oped in Die Welt, I've dug out an article I started writing about the AfD
in 2018, shortly after interviewing co-founder Alexander Gauland. I think it holds up well.
open.substack.com/pub/parnellp...
in 2018, shortly after interviewing co-founder Alexander Gauland. I think it holds up well.
open.substack.com/pub/parnellp...
December 29, 2024 at 5:27 AM
In the wake of the kerfuffle over Elon Musk penning an oped in Die Welt, I've dug out an article I started writing about the AfD
in 2018, shortly after interviewing co-founder Alexander Gauland. I think it holds up well.
open.substack.com/pub/parnellp...
in 2018, shortly after interviewing co-founder Alexander Gauland. I think it holds up well.
open.substack.com/pub/parnellp...
My column: Great politicians get two things right: they choose the right time to be born & the right time to leave politics.
Albanese missed his moment. He’s a man built for an era of liberal gentility, who became PM just as the liberal era was drawing to an end. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Albanese missed his moment. He’s a man built for an era of liberal gentility, who became PM just as the liberal era was drawing to an end. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Politics, like comedy, is about timing. Albanese will be a victim of the liberal era’s fall
Voters around the world are choosing a rougher cut of leader to champion them into the second quarter of the 21st century. Anthony Albanese will never be that.
www.smh.com.au
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
My column: Great politicians get two things right: they choose the right time to be born & the right time to leave politics.
Albanese missed his moment. He’s a man built for an era of liberal gentility, who became PM just as the liberal era was drawing to an end. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Albanese missed his moment. He’s a man built for an era of liberal gentility, who became PM just as the liberal era was drawing to an end. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
My column: The ABC has become dull and incurious. Joe Rogan might just have the cure. www.smh.com.au/national/the...
The ABC has lost its curiosity. Joe Rogan can help Kim Williams recover it
The ABC chair says he won’t tune into Rogan. Well, he should hope his journalists are doing it for him.
www.smh.com.au
December 7, 2024 at 10:36 PM
My column: The ABC has become dull and incurious. Joe Rogan might just have the cure. www.smh.com.au/national/the...