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Would you rather be an idiot on a team of intelligent people or the intelligent person on a team of idiots? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

You come up with a contrived scenario and very specific situation just to justify being an idiot. No. Knowledge is not the same as being intelligent, idiot is not the same as dumb. Its incredible how you guys come up with stories just to justify being the dumbest or only idiot in the room. An idiot means its not able to learn anything. Also why is the focus on learning something so high in these replies here? And who says I'm trapped in this room forever?

An intelligent person can learn from the failures of idiots. That's why he is intelligent. An idiot can not learn. That's why he is an idiot.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I see you are among those who are incapable of reasoning by analog.

    The hypothetical is all there is when discussing a hypothetical. The metaphorical room is eternal and all encompassing because once you leave the 'room' you are outside the hypothetical. So, yes, you are 'trapped in the room' if you are going to engage in the OP's hypothetical. If you want to deny the premise, you are trying to pretend you are playing the game but ignoring the rules of the game. In other words, you are lying, whether to us or to yourself. Don't get pissy when people call out your ignorance of how to play, willful or otherwise.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Your derived situation was made up AFTER the post and our discussion, just to justify your position wanting to be an idiot. It was a free form hypothetical situation without further rules. You yourself imposed the rules on you and others, just so you can be right. And now you start attacking people who do not agree with you. Maybe you are the idiot in the room right now, but you probably feel safe knowing nothing and trying to learn how to carve a stone. No my friend, I'm not an idiot who wants to be an idiot under any circumstances. Idiots don't learn. Intelligent person learns from mistakes of idiots.

    OK then, read on. Let's say you are an intelligent person with lots of knowledge. Let's say a score of 150 of intelligent knowledge, a hypothetical metric. But you want to learn something new, so what you do? Off course you go to a fairy and wish you were an idiot / dumb. Now your score is 45. That means you lost all of that, just to try to learn something new and to get a position where everyone is. And because you are an idiot, its really really hard to learn anything, and it takes ages to get a score of 90. If you didn't wish that, you would be at 150 and maybe you learn a bit and get 160 and you are scratching highest score what is even possible.

    Don't get pissy when people call out your ignorance how to play, willful or otherwise. Accept your defeat.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago

    My situation was a slightly concretized example of the OP. It sits within the OP's conceptual space. It's not justification.

    You are now too defensive and emotional to reasonably interrogate or express this level of idea. It's not worth my time to try to fight past that emotion. Have a nice day.

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