so they can adapt to realities in ways they can't with black test scores.
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A defining characteristic of stupidity is simply taking a previous conclusion and applying it without considering the logic and reasoning used to get to the conclusion. The excuse making of "we thought it was impossible to prevent" was just that.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pandemic-travel-coronavirus.html …
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That is a human heuristic shortcut that everyone makes. It isn't stupidity but rather saving mental processing power. Avoiding all young black males at night works on the same wavelength and it's generally a wise idea. What separates the genuinely stupid is learning a lesson from
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past experiences. The truly stupid will not only learn nothing, but seek to learn nothing.
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They didn't learn anything and didn't seek to. They were stunned at the emergence of new strains because "viruses don't do that" - *old* viruses don't do that, novel ones can. I knew this. What are the experts saving their brainpower for that they're shortcutting that?
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I think you are letting your (well justified) contempt for them cloud your recollection. I don't recall anyone claiming that no new strains would emerge. I'd probably be pissed too if they were driving my people off the edge of the proverbial cliff too, but as stupid as they may
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appear, they are now have near total power, it serves to better understand how they achieved this and how undermine it than to rail against how they are all stupid heads.
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It's not about ranting - it's about a rational assessment and planning for what to do about a world after they're out of power and the reality is that it's going to be extremely bad because they've systemically excluded intelligent people from important roles.
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Covfefe Anon Retweeted Walter Kirn
Example that doesn't just apply to writing.https://twitter.com/walterkirn/status/1358582056645611520 …
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Walter Kirn @walterkirnSome people think censorship is ideological. Some of it is. At first, especially. But then things progress and some censorship becomes “quality” based. The regime doesn’t want you to know what good writing is so you will not realize how bad, how ugly, their approved stuff isShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Covfefe Anon Retweeted Meta-Contrarian
Putting examples here as they come across my timeline:https://twitter.com/polygenicity/status/1358475130507321354 …
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Meta-Contrarian @polygenicity97 British MP's were asked "If you spin a coin twice, what is the probability of getting two heads?" While most Conservative MPs selected the correct answer (25%), 77% of Labour MPs failed to answer the simple probability question correctly https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/use-data-and-statistics … pic.twitter.com/1JUCxUlVLw1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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