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Heard from Avram Grumer: “Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from believing that everyone else is psychic.”
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from believing that everyone else is psychic.
This sounds delightfully like Strong Bad's "A One that is not a Cold One, is Scarcely a One at All."
Similar in spirit too:
A sufficiently advanced stupidity cannot distinguish between technology and magic.
I've always thought Clarke's Third Law was topologically identical to the Turing Test, it just depends on the angle of observation; Stefan's observation kinds of fits halfway along, though I would call it trusting nature rather than stupidity. After all, ATMs pass the Turing Test to the extent that I've seen little old ladies thank them.
It's the same sort of isomorphism as "Information wants to be free" has with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
If information wants to be free, what does freedom want? To be informed?
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