Life is hard, it's harder if you're stupid. - John Wayne
I actually often see the opposite less intelligent people are often carefree and more happy.
People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
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Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#22We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. Increasingly, the disparity between what our technology is capable of and our own limitations as animals will become a pressing issue. One thing that always bothers me is how we have this myth of personal responsibility that supposes an individual is equipped to defend their own interests against a multinational corporation on their own. “Well I just don’t get wh…
I like to remind people that it's not "you versus AT&T" it's "you versus a quarter million experts in their respective domains." I would expect any average individual to lose against AT&T in whatever their issue is unless AT&T willingly concedes to them. Picking on AT&T for no particular reason.
That's an intersting point. Perhaps things would be more level if a conflict between an individual would be settled by selecting one RANDOM employee from that company (not the super ninja expert in the narrow field at hand), and have them battle it out in a lower court / arbitration.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#23We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. Increasingly, the disparity between what our technology is capable of and our own limitations as animals will become a pressing issue. One thing that always bothers me is how we have this myth of personal responsibility that supposes an individual is equipped to defend their own interests against a multinational corporation on their own. “Well I just don’t get wh…
With you 100% on this one. Your last illustration there reminds me a little of this: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/08/627082032/1-year-old-shows-up... >>> His name is Johan. He drank a bottle of milk and played with a purple ball as he waited for the immigration judge, The Associated Press reported. John W. Richardson, the judge at the Phoenix courthouse, said he was "embarrassed to ask" if the defendant understood the…
That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb. That is a farcical process subverting the judiciary to abuse someone’s rights.
If the judge had integrity he would resign or be disbarred.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#24We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. Increasingly, the disparity between what our technology is capable of and our own limitations as animals will become a pressing issue. One thing that always bothers me is how we have this myth of personal responsibility that supposes an individual is equipped to defend their own interests against a multinational corporation on their own. “Well I just don’t get wh…
I like to remind people that it's not "you versus AT&T" it's "you versus a quarter million experts in their respective domains." I would expect any average individual to lose against AT&T in whatever their issue is unless AT&T willingly concedes to them. Picking on AT&T for no particular reason.
I once spent nine months in what seemed like a losing battle with AT&T for them to correctly account for two checks I wrote that they credited to my old phone number rather than my new phone number. I had to write a letter to my state's Public Service Commission before I could get the attention of AT&T's executive office and get their collections department off of my back.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#25Life is hard, it's harder if you're stupid. - John Wayne
I actually often see the opposite less intelligent people are often carefree and more happy.
Being intelligent is not exactly the same as being smart, and no matter how intelligent you may be, if you cannot control the activities of the effects that stick to your consciousness after the fact of what has happened to you in the past, you can't preserve your own true self for a long time, especially in this modern age.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hear hear, the agricultural revolution has trapped us in a Faustian bargain! "The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA. If no more DNA copies…
# of copies of DNA is just a proxy for probability of propagation.
The gene is the unit of selection.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
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With you 100% on this one. Your last illustration there reminds me a little of this: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/08/627082032/1-year-old-shows-up... >>> His name is Johan. He drank a bottle of milk and played with a purple ball as he waited for the immigration judge, The Associated Press reported. John W. Richardson, the judge at the Phoenix courthouse, said he was "embarrassed to ask" if the defendant understood the…
That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb. That is a farcical process subverting the judiciary to abuse someone’s rights. If the judge had integrity he would resign or be disbarred.
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Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#28We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. Increasingly, the disparity between what our technology is capable of and our own limitations as animals will become a pressing issue. One thing that always bothers me is how we have this myth of personal responsibility that supposes an individual is equipped to defend their own interests against a multinational corporation on their own. “Well I just don’t get wh…
Hear hear, the agricultural revolution has trapped us in a Faustian bargain! "The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA. If no more DNA copies…
There is something curious about posters on a techie site lauding the superiority of the hunter-gatherer life.
Re: People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
#29We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. Increasingly, the disparity between what our technology is capable of and our own limitations as animals will become a pressing issue. One thing that always bothers me is how we have this myth of personal responsibility that supposes an individual is equipped to defend their own interests against a multinational corporation on their own. “Well I just don’t get wh…
Execs of MNCs can be "nudged" too to do the right thing. That finding is one of reasons Thaler deserves his Nobel. Read his book.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb. That is a farcical process subverting the judiciary to abuse someone’s rights. If the judge had integrity he would resign or be disbarred.
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He is asking an infant who is incapable of speech whether he understands legal rights.
That’s an insult to the concept of justice.