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You major in like 1 specific thing... it doesn't turn your brain into an Artificial General Intelligence
turns it into an LLM.
I'm continually amazed at how fucking idiots have jobs, buy houses and cars and stuff.
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I found that if something seems stupid to me, most of the time I just don't understand their viewpoint. We are all living in our own world based on our limited experiences.
Why would you expect them to be immune to stupidity?
All humans think fast and slow
College is not a test of intelligence. It's a test of your parents' finances, perhaps, and your ability to conform and play the game, and in some cases one's willingness to cheat as well. In my experience very few people come out of college any smarter than they went in, and given the preponderance of people who seem to major in beer the opposite may in fact be true.
What worries me is not the number of people who manage to stumble through college and still some out the other side stupid. Based on my personal experience with my client base, what keeps me up at night is the sheer majority of people who apparently cannot read and possess no critical thinking skills whatsoever and probably shouldn't be trusted to tie their own shoelaces, but some asshole still saw fit to issue these people drivers' licenses, insurance policies, mortgages, and allow them to buy giant SUVs and guns.
Because it's the emotional inner world that defines how people behave, not education or knowledge or wisdom.
Why do billionaires/oligarchs do it?
Principle of Least Effort.
It isn't particular to the "lower class" or to the "less educated" or to any particular faction of the population.
That's normal.
Some people, no matter how you "slice" the population up, still act so fucking stupid.
'Tis a fact of life, is all.
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What makes you think it's an act?
(Academic) education is not intelligence, and certainly not wisdom.
The worst part is this education doesn't protect you from falling for certain loopy ideas. Critical reasoning is a skill and like all skills it needs to be learnt and maintained.
Education isn’t intelligence. Academic achievement is done through effort in studying.
Education has no bearing on intelligence, or how "smart" you are. Sure, being more educated CAN make you smarter, but most people can skate by and get a degree while learning next to nothing. Plus I think a lot of higher educated yet ignorant people have the nose-above-ear holier then thou complex and can't be told anything they don't agree with or believe in already without throwing a fit. Plenty of educated people are very intelligent, but I think the stupid educated people make a lot of noise and appear as a larger group than they are as well. You know that whole loud minority thing.
People can cheat or learn to just memorize and repeat information without really accepting or retaining it. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make a drink.
There are only two options: Either they're stupid and can't comprehend things, or you're stupid and can't comprehend what they can.
College degrees just ensure we're specialized.
Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.
I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). "I don't want to do all that" is his defence in not going to Uni.
Idk all the reasons, but I watched this yesterday and it blew my mind. Ppl are crippled now
Not all colleges and not all degrees are equal. Some people can excel in a single field but struggle in everything else. Some people have excellent memory function but precious little ability to reason. Some people change dramatically from their late teens to their late twenties. The list goes on…
Formal education is just a means to an end, end being typically independence/jobs, not actually intellect (no matter how much it's marketed as such).
If you identify educated people as drastically different from you, perhaps they are just trying to fit in when they're around you.
To quote a song lyric from an excellent rock band... "Clever, not very wise"
(Midnight Oil - Shipyards of New Zealand)
Look up Cipolla's laws of stupidity, pretty much sums it up.
If you're in the US, bachelor degrees are pretty worthless lol.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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