"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
09/16/2016 at 08:13 • Filed to: None
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"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
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This is amazing, but ignores one very critical point:
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/09/the_basic_laws_of_human_stupidity.html
The stupid person is generally unaware of his or her stupidity. Therefore, if rule number one is correct and there are significantly more stupid people than we believe, the accute possibility that you yourself are fucking stupid increases exponentially.
Roadster Man
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 08:39 |
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DON’T YOU EVER CALL HIM STUPID!
duurtlang
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 08:44 |
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It’s a sign of intelligence to recognize your own shortcomings. I realize I’m capable of acting rather stupid. Therefore, I am not stupid. Makes sense, right?
jimz
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 08:51 |
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I’ve found that without fail, if I rant about someone else’s stupidity, I will inevitably do something stupid shortly later.
jariten1781
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 08:56 |
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There was a book I read a while back that had pretty much the same little graph he does but labeled differently. The upper right was ‘producers, lower right was ‘takers’ or ‘vampires’, upper left was ‘givers’ or ‘patsies’, and lower left was ‘human entropy’.
Combining the two means that stupidity = societal entropy. As we know entropy of a closed system never decreases. Therefore we’re doomed.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 09:17 |
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The stupid person is generally unaware of his or her stupidity.
Yes, but that’s imprecise. What you want to employ here is the Dunning-Kruger effect, which states that someone incompetent in a matter is incompetent to judge their own competence. It can be blanket stupidity, but more often than not, somebody has areas of competence yet is a total fucking moron in at least one area and is unaware of it.
Some level of intelligence can guard against *general* Dunning Kruger incompetence, but people are great at rationalizing, so past a certain point it often seems more likely that somebody has one or more points of being a moron that they’ve insulated - like a tubercular cyst.
So yeah, morons aren’t aware they’re morons, but the general moronicity of the public is both lower (due to some people not being morons all the time) and even higher due to “smart” people who are topic-incompetent.
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> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/16/2016 at 09:54 |
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