RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 12, 2020 at 5:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2020 at 5:34 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 10, 2020 at 9:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: "Humans are stupid. Really, really stupid."
and occasionally self aware.
(July 11, 2020 at 2:14 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(July 11, 2020 at 1:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The two are not mutually exclusive.
Boru
They may not be mutually exclusive, but it seems wrong to confuse them with one another or treat them as being positively correlated. Malcolm Gladwell's recent book forwards the idea of "default to truth." People naturally assume honesty and trustworthiness in strangers; not trusting strangers has a paranoid tinge to it. I think being interviewed by a reporter and camera crew perhaps increases our sense of trustworthiness in them, lowering our guard; or perhaps being filmed shifts cognitive recourses towards our appearance on camera, and away from Type 2 thinking (our more logical, calculated, form of thinking).
In other words, there are better explanations for the behavior than being stupid.
in other words, you think being stupid and exhibiting the effects of being stupid are totally different things.
btw, my user name for the Morgan Stanley account is “Anomalocaris”. My password is “siracolamona”.
hehe, how many of you are gullible enough to try it?
(July 10, 2020 at 11:52 pm)Fireball Wrote:(July 10, 2020 at 10:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I use passwords that are extremely difficult to remember or spell.
Basically, any Polish surname.
I worked at a company many years ago that had the computer system I worked on push out new passwords every 90 days. It always caught me by surprise, because I had a lot of very important work to focus onand didn't spend a lot of time looking at the password countdown. I almost always had to go to an admin and have them reset my password the day after that renewal, because I would forget. They were just random strings of letters with a sort of phonetic pronunciation to use as a mnemonic. BTW, what grit Polish did you use?
to defeat the ban of mandatory password changes, my old boss’s passwords were, in sequential order, “password01”, “password02”.....”password12”, by which time “password01” was sufficiently far in the past that reusing it won’t trigger a rule violation, so the sequence rewinds to the beginning.
Hey, old boss, if you are on this forum, you know who I am. 😁
