• dope@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    So you think stupidness makes you happy? I gotta say I disagree.

    I mean it’s intelligence that keeps you from trying to eat rocks. Eating rocks clearly leads to unhappiness.

    Maybe we’re talking about 2 different kinds of intelligence.

    I’m talking about “understand all the things” (mind, body, emotions, etc) type intelligence.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re stupid you’re not going to notice the world burning down around you. Blissful ignorance.

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        1 year ago

        You’d need to hit that sweet spot, especially right now

        It’s easy to take advantage of someone who doesn’t know any better, and part of that manipulation (especially recently) is trying to get people angry and upset.

        I’d rather know enough to not fall for it

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        1 year ago

        So dumb people don’t suffer from being stupid? You really must be hitting that button. In my experience stupid people suffer the most, unless they are also rich af.

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            1 year ago

            So by your logic the dumb people who bought property in a flood zone dont suffer and don’t notice when their homes get destroyed? or you just consider that to be a small fraction of the dumb people? either way I disagree

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              1 year ago

              That’s a stretch and half there…

              Foolishness and stupidity aren’t the same thing, you would be foolish to buy something in tornado alley or a fault zone, but sometimes you also don’t have an option. Or maybe those people are the bottom 10%, notice how OP said until they were happiest, they understand going too far tips the scale again.

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      1 year ago

      “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”

      If the button increases capacity but not the actual things you know, then I’d say pushing the button would drive you kind of batty rather than improve any measurable quality of your life. Better to be stupid and happy.

      If it gives you the answers to the secrets of the universe and the means to use them then I would absolutely bash the button. Let me accelerate the development of society through affordable space travel, cures for all diseases, and convincing eli5 arguments that bring peace to the world.