lionhearted comments on Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie? - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lionhearted 13 June 2011 08:57PM

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Comment author: lionhearted 14 June 2011 02:34:55AM 2 points [-]

Can you distinguish thoughtless egalitarianism from stupidity a little more?

Good question. "Stupidity" can mean a variety of subtly different things in English. I was drawing to a distinction between "poor judgment" and "never having consciously thought about it at all."