The Means to an End

Just how stupid or idiotic someone is when they make a claim that isn't especially smart depends on how they say it. Take a statement like 'everything happens for a reason.' If someone claims this, it can of course be because they've heard it somewhere and are just repeating it, parrot-fashion. In that case, they are stupid. On the other hand, the person may have attempted to consider the matter and thus reached that conclusion themselves, like many before them. If that's the case, they are an idiot. There is good reason to believe that absolutely everything that happens has a cause, but it's easy to slide from one expression to another and say that everything happens for a reason. This is something we genuinely have no reason to believe. By saying 'reason' we are actually positing a greater meaning, a goal, a greater connection that explains that there is some kind of purpose for everything that happens. However, we have no convincing reason to believe in such a cosmic purpose.

"The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh"