Carlo Cipolla’s stupidity quadrant and his five laws of stupidity were proposed for the first time in 1976. Exposed in a humorous mood by the author, these concepts describe the interactions among human beings in terms of a semiquantitative model based on the gains and losses of the agents engaged in a process. Here, we propose a new interpretation of Cipolla’s ideas in a biophysical framework, using the well known “predator–prey”, or “Lotka–Volterra”, model. We find that there is indeed a correspondence between Cipolla’s approach, based on economics and biophysical economics. We propose a “sixth law of stupidity”, additional to the five proposed by Cipolla, stating that “humans are the stupidest species in the whole ecosystem” because of their tendency of overexploiting natural resources.

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愚蠢的第六定律：Carlo Cipolla 愚蠢定律的生物物理学解释

Carlo Cipolla 的愚蠢象限和他的愚蠢五定律于 1976 年首次提出。这些概念在作者幽默的气氛中被曝光，这些概念以基于人与人之间的得失的半定量模型来描述人与人之间的相互作用。代理参与一个过程。在这里，我们使用众所周知的“捕食者-猎物”或“Lotka-Volterra”模型，在生物物理框架中对 Cipolla 的思想提出了新的解释。我们发现 Cipolla 基于经济学和生物物理经济学的方法之间确实存在对应关系。除了 Cipolla 提出的五条法则之外，我们还提出了“第六条愚蠢定律”，指出“人类是整个生态系统中最愚蠢的物种”，因为他们倾向于过度开发自然资源。