ONLY five? Hmmmm! Well, regardless of how many, there is an over abundance if it.
I often quote Shelton’s Law. “there is nothing so stupid that humanity won’t do it.”
Shelton’s law has a corollary, “There is nothing so stupid that humanity won’t do it again”.
You get the government you deserve?
Stupid people donāt know they are stupid because they have no frame of reference. They are easily convinced that they are smart and often go around feeling very smart because they did something that they saw as clever even though it might have been accidental. Things that stupid people see as smart are not as smart as the things smart people see as smart. Smart people also realize they are capable of stupidity while stupid people donāt know how stupid they really are.
1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid people
2. The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic
3. A stupid person causes loses to others without gains to themselves (consistently)
4. Non stupid people underestimates the danger of the stupid
5. Stupid people are the most dangerous people
Whomever came up with #2 is stupid and couldn't be more wrong. See Democrats and Blacks who vote 95%+ Dem.
P4L
Way too subjective.
By his definition, the left would define every conservative as stupid, and conservatives would define all leftist as stupid, and both would be correct.
Example: The left says all conservatives are stupid because they do not support the New Green Deal. They are harming themselves along with everyone else!
Conservatives say: The left is stupid, because it supports woke ideology. They are harming everyone else along with themselves!
Too much subjective judgement involved about what is harm and what is a benefit.
Lots of people feel a benefit by exalting in damage to others, especially on the Left.
There is a more advanced version of the highly complex study of Artificial Intelligence, called “Artificial Stupidity”.
Only the genius-class researchers deal in AS, which is a study of ‘how intelligence fails.’ Basically, for every single simple, correct answer to a problem, there are a vast number of wrong answers derived from wrong axioms, means and algorithms.
Even in elementary school, some children are equipped to find “wrong” answers that maybe aren’t wrong, just different from the anticipated “right” answers. Exceptions to the rule. Plausible but incorrect to the anticipated answers.
You can imagine how much AS can throw a lug wrench into Artificial Intelligence.
Stupid people = useful idiots.
Sadly they decide who runs the country, they’re the unprincipled “independents” and “moderates” whose votes swing the elections one way or the other.
Having to watch a 15 minute video rather than quickly reading the concept in the written word format?
It can all be summed up by “hold my beer and watch this!”
Many many years ago I worked for Westinghouse and attended an awards banquet. A speaker was introduced who spoke about artificial intelligence, which was in its infancy then. I spoke up and wondered when I could present my report on artificial stupidity - was never invited to another banquet.
The end result of protecting people from their own stupidity is to end up living in a world full of fools.