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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...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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(it seems you have a definition of stupid that already takes into account situation, evolutionary concerns, and agent motivation - Iow your definition incorporates what I attempted to bring out. So I can't say I disagree, but I do not think your definition is necessarily std.)
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