I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).

Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?

Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.

  • chocrates@piefed.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Being dumb and being lazy is a fine line. I meet a lot of dumbasses that I think just don’t care enough to try.

    Also I see myself in the mirror everyday

    • Hackworth@piefed.caEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Yeah, what people mean by “smart” is to a great extent really “attentive.” Raw IQ (to the extent that it’s measurable) has to be significantly different before it matters more than attention. And the thing about attention is that it can wain, be captured, be exhausted. The act of maintaining/directing it changes tenor from moment to moment, decade to decade.

      • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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        11 days ago

        yeah, and when people think you are smart, it’s that you are attentive to the thinks they value or think you should be attentive too. otherwise, they think you are dumb, if you are attentive to things they don’t value.

        hence the idea that smart people are socially stupid, because they are not socially attentive to the thinks that are socially acceptable, they attend to the ‘wrong’ things.