Stupidity is much more of a conscious choice than we admit. IQ matters much less than the level of intelligence you choose up to your max.
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Is this a colloquial understanding of "stupidity" or the technical, Cipollian definition?
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Cipolla isn't broad enough to be the canonical one the way Frankfurt is on bullshit
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"harms others while not gaining and possibly losing oneself" ≇ "indifference to truth"?
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Stupidity also covers things like simply failing to solve a problem or follow a line of reasoning
Harm is not central to stupidity the way truth is to bullshit
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