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Stupidity is in the air. Who can deny it?⁠ ⁠ But then it's always been in the air. And led to cataclysm.⁠ ⁠ Why do we keep making the same mistakes? First, we need to explain what stupidity is, what in human nature causes it.⁠ ⁠ That's just what David C Krakauer, President and William H Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute | @sfiscience, does in a new essay for Nautilus.⁠ ⁠ In "What Makes Humans Stupid," David writes, "Stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence but its evil twin." We think it's one of the most original and important essays you'll read this year. ⁠ ⁠ His essay at the link in bio. ⁠