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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Replying to @vgr
Indeed. Stupidity tends to dissolve once you take a systemic view - what's the function, how did it evolve, what result, etc. Real stupidity is denouncing "stupidity" you don't understand in situ.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @vgr
I don't see how that follows. Stupidity is just as capable of being systemic as anything else. Maybe more than most things.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
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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Replying to @PereGrimmer @vgr
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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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
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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