...embedded in some very amusing prose: "stochastic carry".
i am coming to the inescapable conclusion that there is some sort of dunning krueger effect for midwits where they are irresistably drawn to building mountaintop fortresses atop mount stupid. they presume themselves to be engaging in complete thought because they have arrived at some rudimentary understanding of cause and effect and are using it to bray “nuh uh!” at people and play at contrarian.
i fear this is an increasingly trained reflex, the specific sort of barking that one gets from a specific kind of seal sent to university and sold a bill of goods about “you are an intellectual and a thought leader now” despite being mired in the callow gotchaball of first order thinking.
I've long appreciated "el gato malo"*; I started reading him during the COVID fiasco.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's spot on, many of the so-called analyses one sees on social media are laughably short sighted.
Some of that can be attributed to ignorance, but you can identify the Dunning-Krueger effect if the louts fail to learn from other comments.
*: I had to learn to read without proper capitalization, however. Didn't take long, as I was motivated by his excellent composition.s
You know, if a cat can type, it should be able to use the shift key. I'm just sayin'...
DeleteOne would think that, yes ... ...
DeleteThere's no doubt a cat is capable of using the shift key. The real question is, why would he bother?
DeleteWell he is a bad kitty.
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