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Watching somebody make the stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance and concluding that I must be witnessing a genius; getting a tattoo of my
by braingenious 4y ago
Watching somebody make the stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance and concluding that I must be witnessing a genius; getting a tattoo of my idol: Wile E. Coyote, the ultimate master of cognition.
- danabrams 4y agoWile E. Coyote’s problem was that he was too smart for his own good. His plans were intricate and too clever-by-half, they needed weeks of planning and sophisticated, usually untested equipment.
- koolba 4y agoHaving your prey defy gravity while you plunge to your doom off a cliff doesn’t help either. I guess the SBF analogy would be something about other shitcoins staying afloat during a wider crash.
- ourmandave 4y agoTo be fair, most of his equipment was under recall before it even shipped from the Acme factory.
- braingenious 4y agoWile E. Coyote was a dumbass. That is the premise of the cartoon.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoW.E. Coyote was just ahead of his time. Imagine the YouTube revenue he'd get.
- Laaas 4y ago"stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance" yet was a billionaire? Sure.
- the_gastropod 4y agoIf the past ~6 years have taught us anything, it should be that billionaires are every bit as capable at stupidity as the rest of us.
- AlexandrB 4y agoFinancial success and intelligence are frequently orthogonal. Stephen Hawking vs Jake Paul: who was smarter - Hawking, who has more money - Paul.
- Sebb767 4y agoBut Hawking was far from poor and Jake Paul might not be as smart as Hawking, but he's a marketing genius. It's just a classic case of the tails coming apart [0]. Financial success and intelligence are definitely related and far from orthogonal. [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-tails-come-apart https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-ta...