Human Stupidity
Links 11/20/2003 |The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla:
- Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
- The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
- A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
- Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
- A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
- Corrolary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
(via Jerry Kindall)
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November 20th, 2003 at 7:20 pm
Stupid, stupid, stupid
After dumping that pile of crap from Bryce Gaudian, I needed this. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla:
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals
November 20th, 2003 at 7:48 pm
true! ive seen dangerous stupid people before and advise people to stay away from them.
November 21st, 2003 at 8:26 am
Problem: these rules treat stupid people as if they were a class separate from a class of non-stupid people, when, in fact, most of us drift back and forth between the two. So the rules should include ways to determine which class a person is in at the moment.
Having said that, I have encountered people whom I have never seen to be anything other than stupid, while never the opposite, so perhaps the two classes should be: always stupid and sometimes stupid? When and if we are stupid, however, I think these rules do apply.
— The “Likes To hink He’s Only Sometimes Stupid” Prop
November 22nd, 2003 at 3:14 am
“a stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.Corrolary: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.”
problem is we have an overabbundance of stupid bandits.
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