[FRIAM] on stupidity

[Steven A Smith]

glen -

I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems
egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different
basis space...  or more aptly "a different value system".  It is
easy/convenient enough to just "discount it" and move on, but if the
subject is important enough, it is probably worth watching/looking
carefully to see if there is something I'm missing about the (un)shared
assumptions/axioms/values.

On the other hand I was raised to respect Rodeo Clowns on the basis that
"you have to be really good to be that bad!"  Which roughly describes
Tricksters and Trolls who can concoct a very specific "clashing"
narrative to your own.

My own "stupidity" in the sense of "demonstrated ignorance" seems to
come from operating not so much in a *different* basis space, but in a
*subdimensional* one...  which leaves my expressions limited in nuance
relative to the conversation/context at hand.

- steve

On 2/14/20 9:24 PM, glen e p ropella wrote:
> Hm. But you can't deny that we're all stupid at some time, in some context, for some isolated decision. The point is that a slight deviation is "yet another episode of my stupidity", whereas a large deviation implies a different basis ... like the garbage poetry I wrote as a kid. It's so stupid, I can't come to any conclusion BUT that those words came from someone else.
>
> On February 14, 2020 7:54:33 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
>> A fundamental assumption is that one shouldn't be disgusting.  Being
>> slightly stupid and disgusting isn't redeeming.   The meritocracy thing
>> is a straw man.
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