{"id":13482,"date":"2023-02-17T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:54:20","slug":"advanced-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/02\/17\/advanced-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">if you&#39;re dumb you can only do mild damage to yourself and others before you run out of juice\/steam. random shouting and thrashing about<br><br>if you&#39;re smart you can do advanced damage to yourself and others. invent ideology, send millions of people to hell<\/p>&mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1442439110975578116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This essay ought to exist because I keep encountering people who need an introduction to the concept.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whenever I get offended by general stupidity, I really ought to remind myself that I have quite a few specializations in advanced stupidity.<\/p>&mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/647044963956490240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Smart people are capable of greater stupidity.<br>I mean, at some level that\u2019s all you need to know. But this is an essay and we have space and time so we should get into some followup questions.<br>Why does advanced stupid exist?<br>How do you know if you are advanced stupid?<br>What to do if you are advanced stupid?<br><br>recurring mistake i keep seeing smart people make is extrapolating from limited information<br>not so smart people cannot extrapolate very much<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this way, many high IQ people are capable of significantly more severe forms of retardation than actual retards<\/p>&mdash; \u211c\ud835\udd1e\ud835\udd22 (@dystopiangf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dystopiangf\/status\/1904648851400908807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>suspended joodaloop tweet: what is it with ridiculously smart people and being absolutely abysmal at product ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this thread recaps many elements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the linear model of intelligence (simplistic notion that you\u2019re on a spectrum somewhere from smart to stupid) is for unserious people<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1899713762967666817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2731 suspended joodaloop tweet: what is it with ridiculously smart people and being absolutely abysmal at product ideas this thread recaps many elements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3vs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14715,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/14715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}