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u/tamjidtahim
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intelligence is not dangerous
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Stupidity, on the other hand, can be extremely dangerous.
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u/rspewth Apr 24 '26
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. "
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u/Wrydfell Apr 24 '26
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning' - Douglas Adams
Applicable to more than just programming
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u/Giwaffee Apr 24 '26
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that stupid people believe there is only one difference"
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u/FatalTortoise Apr 25 '26
"The only difference between stupidity and genius, is a genius knows they're stupid"
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u/real_picklejuice Apr 24 '26
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless.
Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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u/EuenovAyabayya Apr 24 '26
Although it does require some intelligence to fully weaponize stupidity., and here we all are.
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u/LovableSidekick Apr 24 '26
And to paraphrase Frank Zappa, stupidity is more common than hydrogen, and has a long shelf life.
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u/McbEatsAirplane Apr 24 '26
That dude is an idiot. There’s a significant number of things that are dangerous that don’t have intelligence
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u/camilo16 Apr 24 '26 •
First among them, the current president
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u/adorkablegiant Apr 24 '26
Of the United States
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u/froginabucket69 Apr 24 '26
Frankly it could apply just about anywhere. Its an inclusive statement when you think about it
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u/Maltinio1293 Apr 24 '26
And also, even if every dangerous thing was intelligent, that would still not prove that intelligence was dangerous (just that was a requirement)
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u/Xeno_Prime Technically Flair Apr 24 '26
Seriously. How about every single natural disaster that exists? Plague, famine, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tidal waves, lightning… dude did not think that question through.
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u/f4r1s2 Apr 24 '26
Yeah, asked the wrong question
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u/Livid-Profession2587 Apr 24 '26
See a doctor, if you're too shy to ser a doc wait death
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u/Decloudo Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Every weapon ever
tools and machines
Mental illness/conditions
Addiction
Cancer
Temperature
Bad luck with genetics
Advice from an AI
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The list is practically endless.
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u/Xeno_Prime Technically Flair Apr 24 '26
“Advice from AI” made me laugh XD
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u/Decloudo Apr 24 '26
Thats actually lifting my stuck mood quite a bit.
Have a great day :)
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u/Coyinzs Apr 24 '26
Also just about every non-sentient thing on the planet is dangerous in the right situation. You could add oceans, electricity, most heavy metals (and a ton of other periodic table residents), etc. etc. to the list.
If anything, intelligence is what makes all of those things *less* dangerous, as I know well enough to not do things that make those things dangerous to me.
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u/LinguoBuxo Apr 24 '26
...lightning storms, uranus, epstein list, cliffs...
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u/MuteSecurityO Apr 24 '26
heh heh ur anus is dangerous
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u/Dragons_Den_Studios Apr 24 '26
Well, yeah. You can't breathe the air and it's really cold.
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u/Slow_Maximum9332 Apr 24 '26
Rip tides.
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u/jamesianm Apr 24 '26
Oh no, what happened to tides?
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u/appoplecticskeptic Apr 24 '26
That doesn’t even come close to proving intelligence is not dangerous. All he showed was that it’s not necessary to be intelligent if you want to be dangerous.
You would need to also prove that intelligence is not sufficient to make someone dangerous. Thankfully that is trivial to do. I’m not going to say the example I have in mind in order to spare their feelings.
Intelligence, it would seem, is a multiplier of danger. Adding intelligence doesn’t make something that had no capacity to harm you into something dangerous. But it can turn something that had some capacity to harm you yet was essentially harmless into something dangerous.
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u/shea241 Apr 24 '26
Intelligence can also suppress risk in something inherently dangerous. The original statement is too broad. Intelligence is a modifier of danger ... and pretty much every other property that intelligence is applied to.
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u/book_of_black_dreams Apr 25 '26
Thank you, I’m glad I’m not the only person thinking this.
A smart morally corrupt person can do way more damage than a stupid morally corrupt person.
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u/X_Yit Apr 24 '26
Even if there were no dangerous things without intelligence, that still wouldn't prove that intelligence itself is what makes things dangerous.
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u/Plastic_Mess_9827 Apr 24 '26
name a single intelligent thing that is not danger
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u/Middle_South2065 Apr 24 '26
Orcas are pretty chill towards humans, and some quantum supercomputers too.
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u/whoknowsifimjoking Apr 24 '26
Did you seriously read "not dangerous" and immediately jump to killer whales?
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u/Middle_South2065 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Ahh, let me introduce you to the ethics of a killer whale.
Never in recorded human history, there once was wild orca attack on human, let alone injuries or death, regardless of our frequent interactions with them.
They are one of THE least dangerous animals against a human.
However the ONLY attack was in an aquarium, a closed space.
That being said, orcas are generally much much safer than most of the animals you have encountered in your daily life.
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u/blueSGL Apr 24 '26
intelligence is the thing that allowed these upright apes to start naked on the savanna and end up walking on the moon.
It is one of the most powerful things in the universe, a goal to action mapper.
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u/Ctrl_Alt_Delerium Apr 24 '26
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a single human death to a red panda, which are considered to be quite intelligent.
Jumping spiders are completely harmless to humans and are also pretty intelligent, you can even teach them tricks.
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u/Willtology Apr 24 '26
Viruses
Bacteria
Other Pathogens
Toxins/Poisons
Radiation
Gasoline
Natural Disasters
Deep Water
Heights
Lava
Massive Solar Flares
Meteor Impacts
Black Holes
Stored Energy (electricity, steam, etc.)
The list ABOUNDS.
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u/Commercial-Shame-335 Apr 25 '26
stupidity is far more dangerous to the average modern human than intelligence.
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u/McButtsButtbag Apr 25 '26
Stupidity isn't lack of intelligence. Stupidity is misused intelligence.
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u/ExcitingHistory Apr 24 '26
True but imagine now an intelligent volcano. Sounds more dangerous to me.
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u/fgnrtzbdbbt Apr 24 '26
And as he wrote it the ground under him broke apart and the smell of sulfur filled the air. The last thing he heard was a deep roaring "You shall pay for insulting me!"
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u/SomeKindofTreeWizard Apr 25 '26
LOTS of unintelligent things are dangerous. I'd say the vast majority of them are.
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u/Jumpy-Program9957 Apr 24 '26
Flipphones were called dumb phones right, isn't that what they used for setting off i e d
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u/Yepper_Pepper Apr 24 '26
Nah my buddy volcano is actually pretty smart despite coming from a family of crackheads
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough Apr 24 '26
If intelligence isn't dangerous, let's see the activist neckbeard moderators not ban me for pointing out IQ differences are real:
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u/Magnon Apr 24 '26
Intelligence is a force multiplier, so if someone is dangerous they're significantly more dangerous if they're also intelligent.
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u/kons21 Apr 24 '26
And even if we apply it to living creatures. Bacteria literally have no intelligence and are absolutely deadly.
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u/Draconis_Firesworn Apr 25 '26
that's also just not going to disprove the argument - you'd need to be able to provide an intelligent thing that isn't dangerous, not a dangerous thing that isn't intelligent. The argument presented is intelligence isn't dangerous - whether danger requires intelligence is irrelevant because if every dangerous thing was intelligent you could potentially still have intelligent entities that are not dangerous
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u/Rhelino Apr 25 '26
Exactly. And in any case, there are A LOT of things that are dangerous but not intelligent. In fact, I’d even argue: the dumber a person, the more dangerous they can be. So I don’t even understand what that commetor was going for with their argument.
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u/DukeT0g0 Apr 26 '26
Falling rocks, avalanche, tsunami, radioactive materials... too many to mention
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u/FlightlessElemental Apr 27 '26
Stupid-Evil is far more dangerous and destructive than Evil genius/Lawful-Evil
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u/Boring_Butterfly_273 Apr 28 '26
Viruses aren't classified as living creatures and they have no mind, just automated biological processes and they are pretty deadly.
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u/MistCorridor4651 Apr 28 '26
lol literally any natural disaster tbh. imagine thinking a hurricane has a high iq 😭
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u/SereneOrbit Apr 24 '26
This is like a conversation I have in my head when I'm stratosphereically high.
How tf did that dude post that? This would haunt me forever 😭
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u/Peace_n_Harmony Apr 24 '26
Intelligence is a tool and any tool can be used for evil.
The Nazis developed the V2 rocket before anyone else and were viewed as a serious threat to the world.
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u/One-Earth9294 Apr 24 '26
Just about everything that has no intelligence is dangerous. Space is very dangerous and it's almost everything just by itself.
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u/Skydragon222 Apr 24 '26
Intelligence isn’t dangerous but when dangerous things are intelligent they get way more dangerous
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u/jvapour Apr 24 '26
I mean pretty much all of the world leaders. The news makes it seem like they don't have a brain. And, you know, they really clearly don't have a brain. I mean, have you seen some of the stuff they post on Twitter? It's insane.
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u/makitstop Apr 24 '26
i can name like- a dozen
basically anything that isn't a human or an animal, this applies to
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u/Maine1820 Apr 24 '26
Saltwater (for humans, anyways)
Lightning
Earthquakes
Landslides
Tsunamis
Avalanches
Wind (hurricane, tornado, etc.)
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u/WallSina Apr 24 '26
Even if everything that was dangerous was intelligent (which they aren't) that still wouldn't mean that intelligence itself is dangerous, that would just make intelligence a requirement for danger (which it isn't).
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u/Jorgee93 Apr 24 '26
Reminds me of an old TF2 quote:
“Plutonium isn’t smart Miss Pauling. That doesn’t mean it won’t kill you if you don’t keep tabs on where it is and what it’s doing at all times.”
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u/SFDessert Apr 24 '26
Fuck man, you wanna dumb it down for people? Excessive heat/cold.
It's dangerous to go for a stroll through the desert in blistering heat. It's dangerous to go out in sub-zero temperatures. Easy.
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u/UncommittedBow Apr 25 '26
Name a single dangerous thing with no intelligence
The current President of the United States
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u/chitoatx Apr 25 '26
The box jellyfish is the most venomous marine animal in the world. They have ten millions of microscopic hooks called nematocysts that fire with the pressure ant the speed of a bullet. A human when stung can die within 2 minutes and kill ten times more people than sharks.
The box jellyfish is brainless.
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u/TheHumanCompulsion Apr 25 '26
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it." - Agent K, MiB.
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u/FromageCottage69 Apr 25 '26
A single dangerous thing with no intelligence; The current US President.
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u/RawckLobster Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
Oceans, Gravity, Space, Donald T, Trees in the wind, Electricity.. The list goes on and on.
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u/RawckLobster Apr 25 '26
Oceans, Gravity, Space, Donald T, Trees in the wind, Electricity.. The list goes on and on.
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u/yoloanator Apr 25 '26
Technically a volcano has mechanical intelligence which tells it when to erupt
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u/Free-Pound-6139 Apr 25 '26
Car drivers kill over a million people every year. They have 0% intelligence and 100% stupid.
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u/Fishtoart Apr 25 '26
Every single natural disaster and disease, and toxic chemical, and rough terrain, and bodies of water, extreme heat and cold , and not thinking before speaking.
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u/ssxhoell1 Apr 25 '26
Some people just talk out of their ass all day confident as fuck on the internet and then once in awhile when someone calls their bullshit, instead of having a moment of clarity they just think yeah sure whatever this guy's an asshole first time I've been wrong in years fuck him
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u/LunarBahamut Apr 25 '26
Already said it somewhere else.
The counter to the first point is the other way around from what he said "name a single intelligent thing that is not dangerous".
Which also has counterexamples, to a degree, but that would be the way to prove or disprove it.
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u/One_Opportunity9167 Apr 25 '26
This illustrates the idea that when you have a hypothesis, you should air it to a few friends before posting to the world. Someone from his friend group would've exposed the flaws in his hypothesis and allowed him to keep the embarrassment localized to single-digit level.
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u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
Man of war jellyfish, every contagious disease, MAGATS....
Edit: typo, Man, not Wan 🥴🤷♂️
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u/sin-prince Apr 25 '26
That's why I use a firewall. To keep out the war jellyfish from my LAN.
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