Re: No fun at all.

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Drsolly wrote:

<<snip>>
> I've never met someone who got scammed like this before; I always thought 
> it was stupid people and/or gullible types. This guy is very bright, and 
> I'd never have thought of him as gullible.

"stupid" -- not necessarily.

"gullible" -- yes, depending on your definition.

No matter how smart someone is, they'll almost certianly be very dumb 
_about something_.  In that domain they are quite likely also 
"gullible".  This is why top-of-their-field academic physicists can run 
"experiments" that "prove" various "para-normal" capabilities in 
various folk who believe they have such and/or know they are 
charlatans, yet professional illusionists (aka "magicians") see right 
through these "demonstrations" (it's probably also why the charlatans 
never take the "prove it to us" challenge when the challenger is 
a(nother) professional illusionist, but I digress...).

So, your friend is showing perfectly normal behaviour for an 
intelligent human being.

Just don't let your belief in your (narrow) expertise, and its 
associated extreme (but narrow) "intelligence" seduce you into over-
extending your belief in your "expertise in general".


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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