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Smart people don’t think others are stupid
- informatimago 10y agoIndeed, and this is a problem. Often, social interactions break because you assume a general level of intelligence about equivalent to yours. At one point, assuming people are stupid, and talking about the last football game is the best way to navigate smoothly. On the other hand, you cannot marvell at the multiple applications of bayes statistics on one hand, and then reject racism and biases on the other. Some consistency is needed.
- yehosef 10y agoThe basic flaw in the reasoning is the line: >There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid. There are in fact stupid people out there and sometimes they are in positions of influence and sometimes they become president.