Stupid versus evil. This is a good access for exploring the institutions that prevail.

Is the dividing line between the two, in your opinion, intentionality?

Or is you can do something stupid that is, say, destructive to life, liberty, and property.

But if you didn't mean to, then it's not evil.

Here's an idiosyncratic definition that I think is humorous.

And I'm not sure if it originates in Talib or somebody else,

or if I came up, I don't actually remember what the origin was.

But something like this, good helps others without concern for themselves.

Smart helps others while also helping themselves.

Evil harms others while helping themselves.

And stupid harms others while also harming themselves.

Interesting.

And so that definition is an interesting one where basically the distinction is that evil is smart enough that you can at least reason with it sometimes

and get it to help themselves more by not harming you, since all they care about is gain.

Or a stupid doesn't even compute out far enough and will actually cause a loss.

And one of the things I learned from the whole COVID thing was that many of these

journals were just absolutely stupid because, like, had they act, like, they just reacted

tribally to everything that we were saying about the possible, like, because there was a huge tale on what COVID could have been.

It was there, it is the most serious pandemic that has emerged in a long time.

And at the beginning, if you look at the curve of deaths and so on, it was an exponential like this. And we're all lucky that it wasn't the Spanish flu or something more serious because it could

be more serious. There's like a few mutations or whatever could make the thing more serious.

But the journal has treated it as if it was like some stupid point scoring game as opposed to a matter

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