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Can You Actually Fix Stupid?
Learning to outthink people who aren’t thinking
I never ever want to call another person stupid. I am a patient and loving person. Still, there are times when I interact with someone that is so self-loathing, that they are willing to bring everyone to destruction with them. I would rather be in a foxhole in a warzone with Super Mario than with these folks. They seem to have no common sense. So what is my problem?
One of the greatest expressions of self-love is common sense.
It is through the act of wise self-love, that we seek to be more efficient, effective, precise, productive, and more self-aware.
The axiom that communities can be usefully modeled as a collection of self-interested individuals is an important and central assumption in much of my work in applied game theory, as well as in decision science, and game-based thinking. Mathematical economics, especially when described as “Game Theory” has now come to be an influential tool for political decision making. It has also been useful in using group dynamics to keep truly dysfunctional leadership types from destroying everything around them.
While the term “common sense” had already become less commonly used as a term for empathetic moral sentiments by the time of…
