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dumb

[duhm] / dʌm /




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“The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I know this is a move that will probably come back to haunt me, but somewhere inside my dumb brain I have strong feelings about fairness.

From Literature

All based on a theory that European citizens are too dumb to take the things they read on X or elsewhere online with a grain of salt.

From The Wall Street Journal

A June study from MIT Media Lab suggests that using ChatGPT to write essays results in “cognitive debt,” a fancy way to say that artificial intelligence makes you dumb.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Business leaders aren’t dumb. They understand the Fed is not 100% independent of the government,” says Robert Wright, a professor and economic historian at the University of Austin.

From The Wall Street Journal