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What Makes Humans Stupid

By David C. Krakauer 7:00 AM CDT on July 8, 2026

Human beings can land autonomous rovers on Mars, sequence a genome in
hours, and engineer nanometer circuits. And yet conspiracy theories, anti- scientific political movements, and institutional hatred proliferate on a scale that might embarrass the meager success record of a medieval
alchemist.

One might say that stupidity implies a capacity for getting things right before it can get them spectacularly wrong. Stupidity is not the opposite
of intelligence but its evil twin, the dissimulating Cain to a cerebral
Abel. _And perhaps surprisingly, the degree of stupidity available to any_ _system scales directly with the intelligence that system possessesrComore_ intelligence begets greater feats of stupidity_. It would be a stretch to
call a bacterium stupid, and we know that cats and dogs achieve modest
feats of it. But human beings, equipped with language, abstraction, technology, institutions, and ideology, can be stupid on a truly civilizational scale. This is not a joke; it is close to a law of nature.
A law that might very well be our undoing.

rCa

https://nautil.us/what-makes-humans-stupid-1282459

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On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:58:05 -0000 (UTC), Nick wrote:

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On 2026-08-31 19:27:20 +0000, Chorbalan said:

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:58:05 -0000 (UTC), Nick wrote:

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