More trivial explanation for the ‘trait’ that I find plausible:
Past: The world was simple, we used to know our tribesman’s options almost as intimately as our own. So our bias: ‘The constraints that apply, are those we know.’
Today: Too complex world! Huge epistemic asymmetry between our own and the others’ constraints: a ton of types of things we know about our own limitations but not about others. Yet, we still implicitly believe: ‘The constraints that apply are (constrained to) those we know’. --> We feel underdog simply as we’re not evolutionarily trained to see ‘the devil in the detail’.*
(*Oh, seems inline with even the broader phenomenon of failure to imagine the ‘devil that lies in the detail’ before we actually experience it; whether this would fit by chance or because it actually has related origin I dare not speculate too much)
More trivial explanation for the ‘trait’ that I find plausible:
Past: The world was simple, we used to know our tribesman’s options almost as intimately as our own. So our bias: ‘The constraints that apply, are those we know.’
Today: Too complex world! Huge epistemic asymmetry between our own and the others’ constraints: a ton of types of things we know about our own limitations but not about others. Yet, we still implicitly believe: ‘The constraints that apply are (constrained to) those we know’. --> We feel underdog simply as we’re not evolutionarily trained to see ‘the devil in the detail’.*
(*Oh, seems inline with even the broader phenomenon of failure to imagine the ‘devil that lies in the detail’ before we actually experience it; whether this would fit by chance or because it actually has related origin I dare not speculate too much)