Dante's Challenge - Cognitive Functioning and Arguments revolving around 'Whatever'

[Dante]

Somebody went through a whole lot of trouble making this video -- wait! It's most likely an AI bot thing -- the Lazy Man's idea of an intellectual argument. But never mind that, this is about the points the video makes. What say you?

"How Intelligent People Deal with Stupid People -- Schopenhauer"

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You are surrounded by fools and it is exhausting. You think your intelligence is your greatest asset. It is actually your biggest vulnerability. The modern world tells you to educate the ignorant, to use logic to find common ground. Arthur Schopenhau knew the brutal truth. Logic is defenseless against stupidity. Explaining your mind to a fool is not noble. It is intellectual suicide. There is a hidden almost ruthless architecture to neutralizing the willfully ignorant A method the most dangerous minds in history used to disarm fools without ever giving them the gift of the truth. Once you understand this mechanic, you will never be drained by a lesser mind again.

You know the ache. You are sitting in a room, perhaps a boardroom, a family dinner, or a digital battleground, listening to someone speak with absolute, unshakable confidence about something they completely misunderstand. You feel the pressure building in your chest. Your brain instantly maps out the flaws in their logic. You gather your facts. You prepare your argument. You lay it out perfectly, expecting the light of reason to wash over their face. Instead, they stare at you. They blink and then they double down on their original absurd point.


You leave the interaction exhausted, your energy depleted, questioning your own sanity. Why does this happen? Why do you lose when you are objectively right? Because you are suffering from the intelligence trap.

Oh! The "Challenge" Whatever was I thinking. Dante challenges people to try and see themselves as well as others in this. Not saying one SHOULD see themselves here, just that one should try.

note: Did that Trump (MoCA) test. Scored in the Stable Genius range
Dante ended up in a six hour evaluation. Test results were what Dante expected them to be. So were the responses of the testers (grad student and post doc fellow), and Neurologists.

 

[Dante]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity?



added on edit: "Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic." - Wikipedia entry

 

[Natural Citizen]

"How Intelligent People Deal with Stupid People -- Schopenhauer"

Nailed it.

 

[Dante]

Nailed it.

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, argued in his Letters and Papers from Prison (1943) that stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. He defined it not as an intellectual defect but a moral and social one, where people surrender their autonomy to slogans and group ideology."

 

[Natural Citizen]

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, argued in his Letters and Papers from Prison (1943) that stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. He defined it not as an intellectual defect but a moral and social one, where people surrender their autonomy to slogans and group ideology."

I'm still listening to it in the background. Just got to that aspect of it...