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Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation

Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.

Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.

Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I am saving this, it’s very well said.

For real, I thought I knew this, I thought I was aware of the problem, then when covid hit I had an actual mental breakdown realizing just how bad it actually is, how the number of people who have cognitive thoughts is actually a slim, slim margin of the population and how “stuck” we are as a species.

What’s worse is we’ve taken ourselves out of selective processes for improvement. We will never, ever get smarter or fix this because it offers our species no advantages to do so.

We will never have the stars. I mourned that fact.

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MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?

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- Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can’t categorize you as stupid, which would adhere to the 4th law.
  
  Congratulations. You solved stupidity.
  
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- Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Then you really know your people.
  
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MunkyNutts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
TIL of the godfather of the quadrant meme, is that the name?

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- JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nolan Chart.
  
  Not to be confused with Gartner Chart.
  
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I feel like it’s worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person

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- architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes that’s what rule 2 is for.
  
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  - starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Just think it could stand to be more explicit. Some people, being stupid, wouldn’t be able to figure out that they may themselves be stupid based only on those laws
    
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