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By: Toolwise

Toolwise — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:30:00 +0000

Great article. I’ve found that there are two things that are infinite in creation: The universe and human stupidity… and I’m not sure about the the universe.

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hi, i think that For a minute, I was a little worried that we were seeing the tech-savvy Anti-Stupid Coalition balkanize!

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The persistently stupid idea « Bumblebee Labs Blog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:24:56 +0000

[...] There are some ideas which are stupid but sound smart on the surface. If you come up with that stupid idea independently, then you will tell someone and they will go “huh”. These are the ideas you have to be worried about because they are the persistently stupid ideas. Persistently stupid ideas come to a person, are tried, fail and then disappear, leaving very little trace of their existence after they are gone. As a result, each generation comes up with the same persistently stupid ideas anew and wastes energy and resources chasing the same illusory pot of gold. This is why you have to be worried about them. The only way to avoid persistently stupid ideas is to learn how to become reflexively allergic to stupid. [...]

By: Hang

Hang — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:15:37 +0000

While it's true that you can learn some things things through the observation of others, it's kind of like learning how to play basketball by watching a lot of NBA games. There's nothing that replicates the feeling of actually being stupid, especially that niggling insistence in the back of your head that you're not actually being stupid.

As for smart people being incapable of doing stupid things, I couldn't disagree more. It's the smartest among us who are the most capable of being stupid. Look at communism, social darwinism, libertarianism, behaviorism and a plethora of other isms. These people were not discovering their own obstacles and groping their way to smartness. They were just being plain stupid, often as a direct result of being afraid to seem stupid.

By: ben

ben — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:56:11 +0000

Damn Hang… I'm a fan of your posts and I liked this at first, but 'none' kinda handed your ass to you.

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By: none

none — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:09:36 +0000

Meh. You say it yourself, you can't learn what stupidity is until you flub a few things. So isn't it better to look at everyone on their own journey through stumbling on mistakes?

Plus, you yourself cite some adventures caused by your ceasing to worry about looking stupid.

In other words, stop worrying about stupidity and have faith in your fellow human beings.

Or is that what you mean by "anti-stupid?" I don't think so, as your last paragraph is just worrying about people being stupid--"it’s a tragic thing for me to see many smart people waste their talent going down paths which I’m scared may be stupid." Don't worry about it! If they're really smart they're by definition not wasting their talent, they're discovering their own obstacles. It's neither your responsibility nor your right to judge their "stupidities."