All stupidity is irrationality but not all irrationality is stupidity. Stupidity is a pattern language. If you can’t spot/name specific pattern, it is either rational in a way you are blind to, or non-stupid irrationality. Unlikely that you’ve discovered a new stupidity pattern.
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I think we'd have to define terms. Say you see someone commit a logical fallacy - the person may have simply blundered, or it may be (say) a way to connect with a supporter with power, rewarded even if unintentional. That's the sorta thing I have in mind.
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I don't think of any of those things as pattern-matching to "stupid". Mistakes aren't stupid (or rather, a stupid mistake is a specific subcategory). Social signalling isn't stupid either. Stupid might be hard to define though but I try to pattern-match it to a...
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...combination of frivolity, wastefulness, and ineffectiveness. Maybe more attributes in the stupidity pattern as well but those three stand out as important to me.
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On this level I'd say the only stupidity lay in avoidable inefficiency.
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something like that, as well as the compounding effects of opportunity costs and also any yet unaccounted for negative externalities of the stupid acts, including especially social costs that aren't immediately reckoned.
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