Heh. When I read: “Anyone with basic math skills should be able to calculate that out, right?” I thought: “yes!”—and waited for the inevitable complication—but it never came.
Perhaps we should come up with some sort of maxim to remind ourselves that not every weird result has a complex possibly-evolutionary explanation - ‘sometimes, people really are just stupid’.
Heh. When I read: “Anyone with basic math skills should be able to calculate that out, right?” I thought: “yes!”—and waited for the inevitable complication—but it never came.
Perhaps we should come up with some sort of maxim to remind ourselves that not every weird result has a complex possibly-evolutionary explanation - ‘sometimes, people really are just stupid’.
People are very frequently stupid, but there is always a causal explanation of their stupidity.
It’s just that sometimes there is a very simple explanation that helps predict the direction of stupidity, and that we might share that stupidity.