Lead: "People must feel allowed to be stupid"
Philosopher Manuel Scheidegger says: Stupidity is underestimated. A conversation about hopes in AI, misunderstood failure culture – and the meaning of “opinion fasting.”
Philosopher Herr Scheidegger discusses the seeming paradox that despite having more knowledge than ever before, society makes increasingly poor decisions. He attributes this to a growing ego-centrism in thinking, where individuals prioritize their own perspectives and values over facts and established knowledge. Scheidegger introduces the concept of "Überdummheit" (super-stupidity), where people strategically reject established knowledge to make room for their own views, often as a pose or provocation.
He argues that this is not simply a matter of stupidity, but rather a misguided attempt to assert one's own intelligence and perspective.
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