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Spanish tourist trampled to death by elephants in South Africa
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Stupid Fucking Moron Dies Doing Something Stupid
A moron died today after being warned repeatedly to not do the thing that killed him.
Ignoring warnings and being clueless to the zoom feature on 100% of cameras and phones offered to the population today, he instead walked towards the 12,000 lb animal and its offspring, sending it into a rage.
The Not Quite Mensa Material was 43 years old and people who knew him are amazed he made it that long.
I feel bad for the other tourists who has to witness his stupid death.
Dum, dum, dum, another one out the gene pool.
Unfortunately not before he reproduced. Jared Diamond in "Germs, Guns, and Steel" points out that so-called primitive people are likely to be more intelligent than so-called civilized people probably because the dumb "primitives" get culled if they do something stupid. Whereas the stupid civilized people go into middle management
His argument went one step further as well I think: aside from the literal culling, he argued also that they used their brains far more often to solve actual real problems and avoid harm, and that this active engagement of their brains with their environment likely led to higher “general intelligence” than say safe western world inhabitants. As an employee of the “spreadsheet factory” I find this speculation highly plausible and compelling.
There is some data out there (that I read like 20 years ago and can't find anymore) that tested two groups of juvenile rats. One group lived 24/7 with mom, and the other split time between mom and their buddies, playing and doing dumb young animal shit.
The scientists discovered that the rats with mom had a less developed brain vs the ones who split time. They posited it was due to the split time rats having to navigate friendships and conflict, forcing their brains to develop more complex neural pathways.
Extrapolating this to humans you can see what the repercussions would be (and in my experience, has become).
Yes I would tend to agree—it seems anecdotally correct that if you restrict the possibility space for a child down to something very narrow, the opportunity to learn and adapt must reduce as well. Which is probably why “good parenting” is such a tricky concept, because you have to somehow maximize the possibility space while also removing anything that can plausibly kill/hurt your child. A daunting task…
I have noticed some nephews of mine being particularly limited—they grew up during pandemic years and are home schooled, and they don’t have meaningful interactions with other children or adults, which seems to really be leading to some issues.
Yup. How do you learn to make informed choices when you've never been given the opportunity to learn what that entails? Same with conflict, relationships, etc.
The plasticity of the brain (maybe?) allows for the brain to grow and change, but I haven't spent the time to look up more recent developments and see what info is out there.
Oof. That's like a cynical Douglass Adams joke.
You could be a newsreader, that was great!