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by ouid 1366 days ago
>The strategy itself is good.

You cannot factor the strategy from its implementation here. I think that was trying to be your point but then you contradicted yourself. I must encourage you to commit. A dumb person who tries to find smart people will find only con-artists. Its the law of lemons.
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roenxi 1366 days ago
A strategy doesn't have to work every time to be good. "Dumb people" can and do find people smarter than themselves and put in an effort to copy them. Usually that is a good idea - better than trying to go it alone, any way.
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ouid 1366 days ago
My brother in christ, most of the people who voted for donald trump did so because they think he's smart. Its a good goal. its a terrible strategy.
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roenxi 1365 days ago
That is a slightly different situation though, isn't it? The US presidential elections are a choice between 2 options, usually both bad. The results suggest all 3 candidates in the last 2 US elections are borderline unelectable and both parties are engaged in a bizarre war to find the worst candidate people will vote for.

Which is not at all the same as the fairly typical group dynamics.

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