Intellectual curiosity is the true barometer; you either thirst to know more, or you’re content with ignorance.
We dumb
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Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 days ago
orbitz@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Eventually you realize you forget almost as much as you learn, it’s like a bilge pump in a sinking boat. Then you focus on what you want to remember and come to acceptance with that.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 days ago
You have to keep going through rehearsal of that old information to keep it from fading. The hard part is stacking new layers on the old layers.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This right here. Being content with ignorance s fine with me at the end of the day.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Ah yes. I am truly a thirsty knowledge bitch.
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 4 days ago
you know it!
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 days ago
There is a third way!
You thirst to know more but have a soul crushing deficit of self esteem and truly believe you’re incapable of anything more than menial labor. You remain with your thirst, not content with your ignorance, but unable to overcome the self image of “absolute moron with no place in the scientific community who must be narcissistic for even thinking he could be” and so you grow to hate yourself even more because of it!
…Err… Or so my friend says.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You don’t have to go to higher education to pursue knowledge! We have more knowledge available to us freely than any other time on Earth!
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The more I learn, the better I understand Monthy Pythons song about how sweet it is to be an idot
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Everyone is just making it up as we go along.
Be skeptical of anyone who claims they have the answer.
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 days ago
42!
But who has the question?!
:P
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I know you’re being cheeky, but we did get an answer to what the Ultimate Question was…
spoiler
The Ultimate Question “What do you get when you multiply six by nine” is found by Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
What is 41! Multiplied by 42?
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
There’s such a thing as knowledge, which qualifies you to do some Jon’s better than the rest. Keep that in mind.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I was arguing with a engineer two weeks ago about systems. I never met him before. But he has a few drinks and interrupted our conversation. And I nearly lost my shit because of how confidently wrong this guy was.
Then someone pulled me aside and said, “Go easy on the guy. He’s only been in the industry for a year.”
And I did feel bad. But also like, my dude… You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.
I wish I had your optimism about humanity.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This guy sounds like management material.
ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 4 days ago
whatever happened to intellectual humility? just because you’re experiencing acute Dunning-Kruger doesn’t mean you have to go raining on somebody else’s parade about how they “know nothing”. Maybe they’re right, maybe you’re an arrogant fool, maybe you really are as stupid as you think you are so you should stfu and let someone else imagine a little. People like you bug. Just because you’ve realized how stupid you are doesn’t mean you need to go shoving it down other’s throats in a desperate bid to salvage your ego.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Best to rest the comment you’re replying to before going on a tirade - this guy interrupted OPs conversation to lecture them, it’s a proportionate response
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 4 days ago
shut up
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Coming out of my undergrad I definitely did not feel that. I think it should be relabeled to high-school and undergrad is I feel SO dumb
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. People who know nothing often think they know everything.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I’ve forgotten more than I know.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think it’s a general thing with highly capable persons in expert and highly intellectual domains that eventually you kinda figure out what Socrates actually meant with “All I know is that I know nothing”
Zetta@mander.xyz 4 days ago
I feel like that sentiment is easily reached by anyone who is curious and likes to learns, so a lot of people.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
If one thinks a lot, likes to learn and, maybe more important, thinks about knowledge and learning things, that person will probably get there.
A certain educational background probably helps but is neither required nor sufficient, IMHO.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 days ago
I have come to realize a PhD just means you have spent a lot of time thinking about what you are doing.
Doesn’t mean what you are doing is smart really. Just well thought about.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Me at 34 with no post secondary education: I wish i could afford to goto school
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I disagree. Most people seem dumb, but there are select few which are incredibly genius.
Like, I heard of a model theorist who produces quality papers every month or so. Then there is also Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat’s last theorem through labyrinth of Langlands. The complexity and depth of the field is just insane.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yes, balanced on the other end by billions of mouth-breathing maroons.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The last one is me with only an associates except I’m licensed under that associates to provide health services and that just makes idiots of us all on a daily and often even hourly basis. “You put what in your where now, and why did I go to school to be the person you call to get it back out???”
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
I already knew that I and everyone is dumb before my undergrad. Am I smart?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I think you’re more wise than smart?
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Hard no.
exothermic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Masters level living in that PhD level mindset. We a bunch of dumb animals
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
We totally aren’t.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve been this way my whole life. I learn something knew and realize I don’t know shit.
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It doesn’t get better, which is the good way. Ever met a self declared highly intelligent person?
emergencybird@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Graduated and am working as a junior engineer and I basically feel like I have a mountain of stuff I need to learn, I can see I’ve grown since I started a year ago but man is there still so much for me to learn
culpritus@hexbear.net 5 days ago
the more you know, the more you know how little anyone knows anything
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
IMO, all three of these statements are correct.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I think the difference is that some people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the same realization.
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 days ago
Hey, the only reason you choose to think that way is... bc it is objectively true.:-|
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This also tracks for programming.
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Tbh in programming that is a healthy attitude to have. If you assume everyone who handles your code in the future, including yourself, is a dumbass, it makes you write more reliable and transparent code.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 days ago
When you’re smart, you don’t need to learn
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
That might be the least smart thing anyone has said today.
tdawg@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ah yes the paradox of knowledge. The more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn