{"id":4541,"date":"2019-12-06T01:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/2019\/12\/06\/natuerliche-dummheit\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:36:17","slug":"natuerliche-dummheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/2019\/12\/06\/natuerliche-dummheit\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If one has difficulty defining a term or a situation, then considering and defining the opposite can be helpful. In workshops with companies thinking about how to prepare for the future, the following questions provide a lot of new thinking and insight: “What if we stopped making money with our most important product?<\/em>” or “Would it stand out if we no longer existed?<\/em>” or “How would we make life most difficult for our customers?<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let us ask ourselves the following question: What is the opposite of intelligence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stupidity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Even Amos Tversky, who was a cognitive scientist, Stanford professor and research partner of Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, quipped:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My colleagues may study artificial intelligence; I study human stupidity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So how can stupidity be described? The late Berkeley professor Carlo M. Cipolla<\/a> dealt with this long before his compatriot Silvio Berlusconi began to dominate the already chaotic Italian politics and defined five basic laws of human stupidity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We all always and inevitably underestimate the number of stupid people among us.<\/li>
  2. The probability that a particular person is stupid is independent of other characteristics of that person.<\/li>
  3. A stupid person is one who causes harm to another person or groups of people without benefiting himself or herself, or who even suffers harm in the process.<\/li>
  4. Non-stupid persons always underestimate the possible harm effect of stupid persons. Especially non-stupid persons forget every time that at any time, in any place and under any circumstances dealing and associating with stupid persons will always turn out to be a costly mistake.<\/li>
  5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. It follows: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence or intelligence itself and how it should be defined, but equally we should look at the opposite – stupidity. It could provide revealing insights about us and machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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