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Carlo M. Cipolla (economist who studied and categorized stupidity) (en.wikipedia.org)

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These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I must be a reincarnation of this guy, cuz I'm literally working on a micro-book called, "Rationalized Malice: How Faulty Logic Justifies Harm."

The book won't be out for a while (I'm in uni and have some high-impact research projects coming up), but it'll be practical in that 80% of it will be what you can do, as an individual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you have a mailing list? Yours would be a periodic email I'd actually love to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here it is!

https://mailchi.mp/90f69a6cf477/lost-einsteins-project

Using Mailchimp for now because it's free. I also made a discord server if you're interested:

https://discord.gg/cKc4VeRxjr

Both are barebones and will be revised in my spare time. I don't expect to work on them much because I'm not trying to develop a following.

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