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Comment author: adamzerner 12 February 2015 03:23:49AM 2 points [-]

Does anyone have any tips or advice on how to handle anger and frustration? Particularly anger and frustration from dealing with stupid people. I try to just keep reminding myself that it's simply an optimization problem.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 12 February 2015 08:25:27AM 1 point [-]

Have you read "Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity"?

Comment author: adamzerner 12 February 2015 03:01:10PM 0 points [-]

I have now. I agree that there are more precise ways of labeling people, but I think that generalizations like "x is stupid" are still useful.

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