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Agree. Moreover, I don't agree with the author that some people are just stupid and that's it. Especially, with the surgeon example. I really don't think a surg

Agree. Moreover, I don't agree with the author that some people are just stupid and that's it. Especially, with the surgeon example. I really don't think a surgeon can be stupid per se. That should be very rate occurrence. More like people do stupid things all the time. Including author, who is too smug, which I also consider stupid.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
Abentmindedness is often mistaken for stupidity. In my area, we have at least two world-ranked labs. We have Nobel Laureates, driving around. I encounter "stupid" drivers, all the time. I am one, too. I'm no Nobelate, but I'm smarter than the average bear.
SamPatt 3y ago
This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. We tend to view it as lacking intelligence, and intelligence we often define as something like IQ, but the author explicitly rejects that and makes it about destructive (to themselves and others) behavior. The doctors were likely not stupid according to the standard definition, but were harmful towards both their patients and themselves, thus stupid according to the new definition. If the article didn't bother bringing up intelligence at all and instead focused on destructive behaviors, it would have made more sense.
- drewcoo 3y ago
  > This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. Maybe like Eskimos have many words for snow, we need many words for stupid. Or idiots should learn to use thesauruses. /s
  - slowmovintarget 3y ago
    We have many words. Foolishness and stupidity are common companions, but one does not require the other. Intelligent people behave foolishly all the time. The distinction is one of a failure of either imagination or effort. We have other words like ignorance, incompetence, impairment, and none of these require a lack of cognitive ability, though the latter implies diminished capacity. Bombast, however, typically seeks to oversimplify for the sake of provocation.
nazgulsenpai 3y ago
The "smugness" of the author is what made me close the tab 3 sections in. And totally agree, some of the smartest people I know are also the most aloof.
postexitus 3y ago
Good point. Interesting that he claims all groups of people contain a certain percentage of "Morons" but then he says he only surrounds himself with brilliant people, which, by definition, makes him the moron.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

Abentmindedness is often mistaken for stupidity. In my area, we have at least two world-ranked labs. We have Nobel Laureates, driving around. I encounter "stupid" drivers, all the time. I am one, too. I'm no Nobelate, but I'm smarter than the average bear.

SamPatt 3y ago

This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. We tend to view it as lacking intelligence, and intelligence we often define as something like IQ, but the author explicitly rejects that and makes it about destructive (to themselves and others) behavior. The doctors were likely not stupid according to the standard definition, but were harmful towards both their patients and themselves, thus stupid according to the new definition. If the article didn't bother bringing up intelligence at all and instead focused on destructive behaviors, it would have made more sense.

drewcoo 3y ago
> This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. Maybe like Eskimos have many words for snow, we need many words for stupid. Or idiots should learn to use thesauruses. /s
- slowmovintarget 3y ago
  We have many words. Foolishness and stupidity are common companions, but one does not require the other. Intelligent people behave foolishly all the time. The distinction is one of a failure of either imagination or effort. We have other words like ignorance, incompetence, impairment, and none of these require a lack of cognitive ability, though the latter implies diminished capacity. Bombast, however, typically seeks to oversimplify for the sake of provocation.

nazgulsenpai 3y ago

The "smugness" of the author is what made me close the tab 3 sections in. And totally agree, some of the smartest people I know are also the most aloof.

postexitus 3y ago

Good point. Interesting that he claims all groups of people contain a certain percentage of "Morons" but then he says he only surrounds himself with brilliant people, which, by definition, makes him the moron.