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Because we're depressed at being surrounded by stupidity. Or at least I am; I won't speak for everyone else.
by rationalist 2mo ago
Because we're depressed at being surrounded by stupidity.
Or at least I am; I won't speak for everyone else.
- slowhadoken 2mo agoStupidity in the sense of doing nothing good for themselves or anyone else, yeah. People are mostly a collection of local context clues about overly emotional nonsense.
- pstuart 2mo agoRight there with you. There's different flavors of stupidity. There's the "oh damn, why didn't I think of that first" and there's the smug "I did my own research and your evidence doesn't match by beliefs".
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- Seb-C 2mo agoAnd it doesn't help that we are getting deeper in the idiocracy timeline everyday.
- dosisking 2mo ago> Because we're depressed at being surrounded by stupidity And then we visit websites like HN, filled with people who think they are smart. I don't mind a stupid person who knows they are stupid, but I despise the so-called 'expert' who is wrong, but society considers that person to be the authority
- throwingrocks 2mo agoCan’t have Hacker News without the hubris! Love it
- xkcd1963 2mo ago100% agree with you