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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I’ve worked with two people who were homeschooled. Both were smart, but well behind in their social development. And just very odd, off-putting people. When one of them wanted your attention, he’d just stand there silently waiting for you to notice him. Sometimes you’d turn around and there he was. The other proudly announced in a staff meeting that he was going to appear in a porn movie.







  • Economist Carlo Cipolla groups people into four categories - Intelligent, the people can benefit themselves while producing benefits for others. Helpless, who can benefit others, but cannot benefit themselves. Bandits, who can only benefit themselves by destroying benefit for others. And finally the Stupid, who can only destroy benefits for others but cannot benefit themselves.

    He believes that the Stupid are genuinely dangerous because their chaos is unpredictable (they have no realistic plans) and other types will always underestimate how much destruction they’re capable of generating (because they persist in thinking the Stupid operate from reason).