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@ Dasus @lemmy.world

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  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • You can't follow the sentence "the way you worded that implied that all the information you have was 'gifted' by 'random chance'"?

    Lots of people enjoy general knowledge. There's even quite a few games and TV-shows based on it. You'd argue that everyone who did well in those, or say, Trivial Pursuit, are better by chance because they were "gifted" something instead of having had worked for it?

    There are people addicted to generalised trivia and facts and then there are people who don't understand the difference between amperes and volts, despite that being taught in pretty much all basic education in at least the developed world.

    But no, the kids getting A's didn't work for anything, they were just gifted?

    Just like

    This girl was also probably gifted her massive arms. I mean, there's so many other things she could possibly be doing with her arms, so it's just random that she'd get larger ones on purpose. It was a random "gift" from... God?

    And this isn't even about the context. Again, the way you worded it excluded experts as well. But you just have to move the goalposts instead of saying "yeah, you're right, it does imply that, I could've worded that better". No, instead you're like "I didn't mean experts, obviously!" Why not? (Do you notice btw how I'm asking you things instead of telling them? Wish there was like a name for this style of rhetoric. Can someone perhaps think of one?)

  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • Yes, I understand the bias.

    You just worded it as if all the information in your head is in there by accident, and you can't actually influence the amount.

    You very much can, obviously.

    But that doesn't remove the bias... again, obviously.

  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • "Only tasked questions"

    Yeah and Einstein "only wrote some equations"?

    The point is the questions he asked, just like the point is that E=mc^2 really isn't as simple as it seems, but has a world of theory behind it.

    Socrates knew to ask the right questions.

  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • Plato was alive when Greek philosophers decided the earth was round, and it would be a few hundred years before somebody would make the first real calculation of its size.

    Closer to 150 than "a few hundred", don't mind me, just nitpicking a little.

    I think geological time, planetary formation & the Big Bang etc would probably be harder to explain and for the greeks to accept than evolution, even though it requires pretty much geological timeframes as well.

  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • It wasn't that he didn't know things. He specifically showed you how you didn't know things you thought you did. That's quiet different.

    It's literally still called "the Socratic method". And it made the ancient Athenians so mad at Socrates they executed him.

    If you manage to have things named after you a few thousand years from now by saying "I dunno", I'll raise my hat to you.

  • I could have told people "I know that I know nothing" too

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  • like that into wasn't gifted to you by chance/random experience.

    This sounds like you think purposefully learning things isn't a thing.

    Do you mean that things you don't remember purposefully learning, are more easily consciously forgotten, even when internalised?

    Because we are often somewhat bad at saying where we specifically picked up a bit of information, unless we have very good context like having studied for a test on a specific subject or smth.

  • SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors

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  • Removed

    what is wrong with c/linuxsucks?

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  • They mean "non-toxic within the community, toxic to everyone who we deem isn't a 'true scotsman'"

  • Bad Luck Roman Dodecahedron

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  • Last time she admitted to being on Risperadol.

    Which is given for schizophrenia.

    I'm thinking she may have been skipping meds for a while.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • What’s with all the furry porn on this platform?

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  • Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

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  • Teslas be like

    (elon doesn't believe in lidar)

  • A rare sticker-sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold for $3 million

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  • Infinite money glitches for the rich is well said, but they should be mindful that too many glitches will cause the system to come... crashing down.

    As in if the rich just keep getting richer and inflation keep getting worse, soon it'll be like Ireland during the Great Hunger, but fucking everywhere. Because the potato blight wasn't even the worst thing back then for the Irish, the British government was.

    Initial government actions to alleviate famine distress, which were constructive but limited, were ended by a new Whig administration in London. This administration pursued a laissez-faire economic doctrine, additionally, some members of the British government believed that the famine was divine judgement or that the Irish lacked moral character, Aid resumed only to some degree at a later stage. Large quantities of food were exported from Ireland during the famine, and the refusal of London to bar such exports, as had been done on previous occasions, was an immediate and continuing source of controversy.

    Hmm I wonder of there are any good movies about it actually. Probably not because the BBC wouldn't make them. Like 1800-1930 set period pieces about politics in Ireland. Suggestions, anyone?

  • What’s with all the furry porn on this platform?

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  • No need to subscribe, just browse all and every now and then there's someone methed up and horny and the new of all is filled with nsfw posts.

    As long as they're in one community it's not hard to block but idk if I can personally block instances. I'm sure it's possible but eh. But I don't want to put nsfw filter on either as not all nsfw is porn.

  • DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body

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  • The drug is basically ready to use. Just going over safety checks and they hope to have it out by 2030. So unless you plan on dying within the next few years, high chances it's happening in your lifetime.

    Which is good news for me, I lack 4 permanent teeth congenitally.

    But I definitely know what you're talking about, having heard about it on/off for literally 20 years. I think this team/research started in 2005.

    I'm still waiting on the 3d printed spare organs. Read about those in the early 00's as well. I think they've managed a rabbits heart already. A functional one.

    they were able to print a rabbit-sized heart with a network of blood vessels that were capable of contracting like natural blood vessels. The printed heart had the correct anatomical structure and function compared to real hearts.

  • DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body

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  • Probably the same way we can know things like if you break a glass, it's gonna stay broken. Or if you cut off a finger that it stays cut off.

    Probably seen telomere damage from radiation or some such. Some sort of thing which doesn't grow back naturally. So sans technology that will change our biology, we know some things are permanent.

    Although like 20 years ago I could've used a tooth falling off as an example, but I first read about tooth regrowing studies in a science mag in the early 00's and 20 years later we're kinda there actually. The researchers hope to have it for general use by 2030. A tooth regrowing drug! Phase-1 human trials already concluded without adverse effects.

    https://dentistry.co.uk/2026/06/09/tooth-regrowth-in-adults-what-we-know-so-far/

  • Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world

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  • Inb4 all staircases look like this

  • Elon Musk set to become world's first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on US stock market

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  • So we could solve all the trillionaires with just one bullet?

    Quick, get the gun before they start increasing in numbers!

  • What are some actors that can only play themselves?

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  • Canada announces bill banning social media for anyone under 16

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  • Banning things online is even less effective than the war on drugs.

    Ever heard of this thing called the Streisand-effect?