Only sort of related but this reminded me of something that struck me recently:
A great benefit of being dumb is never knowing something was too obvious to be worth logic
Often in comedies, there will be a scene where the dummy helps the genius reach some epiphany just by applying simple reasoning to a point the genius glossed over
“Grug too dumb for rules” is legitimately good programming advice.
Only sort of related but this reminded me of something that struck me recently:
A great benefit of being dumb is never knowing something was too obvious to be worth logic
Often in comedies, there will be a scene where the dummy helps the genius reach some epiphany just by applying simple reasoning to a point the genius glossed over
I think this is pretty realistic