Will you admit your stupidity I The paradox of ignorance

People are stupid, that's the premise of this article, but how many people would be willing to admit it?

ignorance

Also known as " knowledge of ignorance ", this is from Socrates' point of view, recognizing one's own ignorance is a necessary condition for knowing oneself and others. ) way to communicate with people, try to ask the other person to answer the questions of "what is good" and "what is beauty", and knock on the loopholes in their words, keep asking until the other person admits their ignorance.

The first problem encountered here is that no one is omniscient. In the face of infinite knowledge, what a person knows is only insignificant, but on the other hand, it is not necessary for people to know everything, most It's all useless content that can't be used. Unless it is to meet the exam, the rest of the futile efforts will only lead people to another road called the Fool.

So there are people who pursue the truth, and people who laugh at the former but know less.

dark forest

This is a theory from the science fiction novel "Three-Body Problem", which can be summed up very roughly. Due to various differences, civilizations cannot confirm each other's intentions, and even if the other party is weaker than themselves, they may catch up later. It may be wiped out quickly, so each civilization needs to work hard to hide its traces.

Using the law of the dark forest is just for convenience, of course people don't need to destroy each other... right? But after all, it is difficult for us to know the intention of the other party. However, before we can identify the intention of the other party, we constantly release our own information, how to talk, express, respond, and cultivate knowledge.

The key is that before the information is released, the map is covered with fog of war, but once the information is released, the night will be lit with fire, and the enemy and the enemy will judge.

So it becomes the following situation:

1. We'll want to appear knowledgeable, or at least not stupid.
2. Knowledge is infinite, and no one can have enough of it.
3. Showing knowledge directly is equivalent to revealing one's position.
4. When your level is worse than the other side, naturally the other side can't understand you; when your level is not as good as the other side, naturally the other side has a clear view.

paradox

In this way, a paradox is formed, "people who are not stupid will admit their stupidity; if they do not admit their stupidity, they will expose their stupidity" .

It can be said that non-stupid people will reserve words because they know their own shortcomings; on the contrary, stupid people have nothing to hide because they have exhausted their ideas, and everything is spread in the eyes of the public.

Finally, restrain yourself. After all, the reality is not always in the game or war, but restraining your own performance can actually leave you a lot of leeway, just to give an example.

For example, many people will use the sentence pattern "XXX is how", such as "the government is to take care of the people" can be said to "take care of the people is the government's job", the former means the result, which may fail; the latter means It is the responsibility and the direction of improvement. The difference is that too " strong " claims will be unbearable for realistic mistakes.

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