[image] The five universal laws of human stupidity We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril. Always nice to have a graph IMO [image] From: [image] 10 Sunday Reads - The Big Picture Welcome December with our easy like Sunday morning…

I would submit that THIS is the biggest mistake in that article: “The stupid, in comparison, are paragons of consistency, acting at all times with unyielding idiocy.” I think we can all agree that ALL of us have done “stupid” stuff - whether fueled by ignorance, youthful arrogance or just unthinkin…

[image] Hartley: I think we can all agree that ALL of us have done “stupid” stuff - whether fueled by ignorance, youthful arrogance or just unthinking inertia. To claim that “stupid people” are invariable seems, well, rather stupid to me :slight_smile: The people who the article is calling st…

I’m curious to know if it was the stupid people or helpless people at Berkeley who paid this bandit professor a salary to come up with this stuff? I eliminated any intelligent people that Berkeley may of had back in '76.

The link in the OP goes to a summary. Here is the original: THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY

[image] Sand_Pebble: f it was the stupid people or helpless people at Berkeley If I’m reading it right I’d say because the bandit professor was able to make use of the salary Berkeley was paying him that would make them helpless rather then stupid. However if the graph can be used to identi…

“…doesn’t that make it useful?” If anybody finds this graph or his study useful besides for entertainment purposes only then they have nothing to worry about. Since the intelligent wouldn’t pay for such needles insight & the sucker & stupid quadrants have no use for this information because they’re…

From the essay: Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly. The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people who normally show a strong proclivi…

Stoopid is as stoopid does. Forrest Gump

A highly entertaining read, but sadly not to very useful. For example, how can you reconcile laws 2 and 3 with self made billionaires as a group? That clearly doesn’t work. I especially like the graph. If we could somehow classify people on the basis of their interactions (a job for a neural AI?…

The five universal laws of human stupidity

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Binbag_the_Saylore December 2, 2019, 12:55am 9

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

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