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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2
It would be a suboptimal use of my limited time for me only to learn that Billy Bob knows something about ratcheting open end wrenches that I don't know about.
I don't know any Billy Bobs.
Foolish people are far more interesting imo than people who are correct. People who are intelligent and wrong are endlessly fascinating. Take the Trump verdict today. It was dead obvious if you had two working brain cells and a slight knowledge of the principles of law that the Supreme Court would overturn the lower court travel ban injunctions, which were obviously and completely against any reading of the law or constitution. You only needed a reasonable level of intelligence and a small understanding of legal principles to see why. Yet smart people here, even lawyers, argued the opposite against me, and did so fervently. How do people get so utterly wrong about things that are crystal clear and easy to get the right answer to? I find that endlessly fascinating and very educational, for I would make the same mistakes they do without the wisdom of watching them make asses of themselves and hence learning all classes of reasons why people get the wrong answer.
Or the science thread.
I feel that if I could somehow parallelize my interactions with "smart" people who are getting completely the wrong answer to easy questions, I could achieve the ubermensch.