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A comment on Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976).

Re:Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) by GrinningFool on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:00PM (#32270586)
Wait.

"The First Basic Law prevents me from attributing a specific numerical value to the fraction of stupid people within the total population: any numerical estimate would turn out to be an underestimate."

If that held true for any estimate, the only correct answer is one hundred percent of the total population is stupid.

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Re:Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) by EnderShadow8 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:48PM (#32271819)
I think that's the implication
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Re:Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) by GrinningFool on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:32PM (#32279025)
Nothing about the post seemed to suggest that was intentional though.
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