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| Is there any theoretical limit to stupidity? (Android permission auto-revoke) |
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| Terry Bites:
To achieve full stupidity you need a good teacher- you cant be born that way. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Terry Bites on March 07, 2022, 05:32:57 pm ---To achieve full stupidity you need a good teacher- you cant be born that way. --- End quote --- Is this the voice of experience? :P |
| rstofer:
As to human stupidity: --- Quote ---"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein. --- End quote --- |
| SiliconWizard:
But back to reason for the topic in the first place: it's not about stupidity per se - it's about greed and control, on one side, ignorance and submission on the other side. |
| Nominal Animal:
And to answer the subject title: There isn't, because stupidity and ingenuity forms a ring, with a zone of chaos opposite to common sense. Starting at common sense, going past ingenuity, you get to the apparently chaotic zone that lead to the declaration that any sufficiently advanced technology is like magic; except that sufficiently advanced forms of rational thinking and logic are non-understandable to us normal humans. Starting at common sense, going past stupidity, you get to the chaotic zone where those performing the stupidity cannot express any reason to the choices and actions they made. It is well known that those two zones are just the two ends of the same chaotic zone. This is because sometimes an utterly stupid idea can lead to brilliant results, and an utterly brilliant idea can lead to horrible results, without any part of the event chain passing through the "common sense" zone. Politics is a perfect example of this: the systems that work best in practice are those that do not strive for the best possible utopia, but attempt to simply limit the damage done by stupid humans. Keep away from the chaos, and do only gentle changes in the direction. Furthermore, if we look at the time evolution of systems involving humans, we find that chaotic zones in the ring are actually a fractal, with the smallest density near the "common sense" zone. Because at the smallest scales the "stupidity-sensibility ring" is non-contiguous, it cannot have a proper mathematical limit either. The funny thing about this post is that I'm being absolutely serious here: this is a functional model for estimating human behaviour in the game theoretic sense. If one wants to be pretentious and artsy-fartsy about it, they can just laconically state that stupidity is the ring that binds us all (because this statement takes at least a couple of laps around this ring itself). |
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