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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid | Psyche Ideas

Basically many people who have the raw processing power or "IQ" to understand and analyse things can still lack certain "mental infrastructure" or education to understand things. This is especially atrocious for narrow minded people who actively rejected new information that doesn't fit into their mental comfort zone. Musk is definitely one of them.

This is the reason why we can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Musk is definitely one of them.

I've yet to see any evidence that Musk is particularly smart. What I've mostly seen is his ability to throw big parties and charm investors with bullshit business speak, while riding a wave of lucky bets and state subsidies to billionaire-hood.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Musk is definitely one of them.

Musk is a rich trust fund baby whose fortune started off the back of Apartheid. It's not a shocker that he's a mask-off racist. He's done nothing to prove himself a genius, just a skilled grifter and financier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'd say it's more people who are repeatedly told they are smart can be very stupid.

Many of then might even be "smart", but the important part is having unwarranted confidence.

Complicating things is that society rewards confidence way more than it rewards competence. If I'm honest about a lack of competence in a certain area but someone else lies during the interview, good chance they are going to get the job over me.

The reality is that everyone can be very very stupid, and so long as each and every one of us is willing to accept and recognize our weakness we aren't as likely to be assholes.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the Overton Window, the window of acceptable topics for public discourse, and it's unrelated to testosterone (I know, surprising /s).

A misaligned Overton Window (like a slow response to an impending disaster) is hard to counteract because the experts dealing with the topic may lose their credibility by trying to push against the window.

But I have heard the theory that the evolutionary reason for autism may be to counteract this effect. A small amount of genuine vocal concern could encourage others to speak out and break the tension surrounding the topic.

This vocal concern is not however gonna come from the evershifting lies of the X and 4chan echo chambers.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I hope someone simply linked a wiki definition of the word oligarchy, because that would literally be what this is. One in-group that practices democracy amongst themselves but excludes the rest from political power.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that you’re tougher than context.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People who work together can't really do democracy. The only true democracy is the one where a small number of people order everyone around without the input of most people. Because that's what democracy means.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm autistic and I've never heard the term 'aneurotypical' before...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Neurotypical exists. Neurodivergent is the more "leftist" or scientific term for what they mean.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I assume this is referring to William Reich the psychoanalyst. His books look interesting in the way all kooky psychoanalysis crankery does, but I don't think he ever wrote about high T alpha males before dying in 1957.

He did write about about how fascists gain power by sexually repressing the population though. I'm sure Elon would hate his views on that.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Do you want 'the handmaid's tale'? Cause that is how... You do? Oh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Another use for the Killer T cells, other than fighting cancer?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

So what i'm taking from his word salad is that combat abilities may possibly be a hidden asd perk.

I mean, we do tend to be biters...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I assume this is objective truth then, something that definitely exists and we can definitely know. I'm sure they have plenty of science to back it up.

They wouldn't just hear a bunch of thinly disguised bullshit built on the back of junk science and take it at face value without checking if any of it is real, not this person with their special objective truth brain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inb4 people start taking a Lemmy shitpost seriously and argue with it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I mean its an interesting subject so why not? The whole "what would the tribe think" thing is definitely real. But where they went wrong is thinking that this is a bad thing. Its literally the only reason humanity has survived so long. Without some sort of consensus there is no cooperation and no tribe.

The issue of "bruteforceability" stems from the fact that too many people are terminally online. In fact Musk is the prime example of someone that has fallen victim to this.

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