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 4 months ago
orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 months 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 4 months 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 months ago
This right here. Being content with ignorance s fine with me at the end of the day.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Ah yes. I am truly a thirsty knowledge bitch.
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 4 months ago
you know it!
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 months 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 months 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 months ago
The more I learn, the better I understand Monthy Pythons song about how sweet it is to be an idot
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 months 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 months ago
42!
But who has the question?!
:P
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 months 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 months ago
What is 41! Multiplied by 42?
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
This guy sounds like management material.
ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 4 months 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 months 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 months ago
shut up
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 4 months 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 months 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 4 months ago
I’ve forgotten more than I know.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 months 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.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months 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 months 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 months 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.
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
Yes, balanced on the other end by billions of mouth-breathing maroons.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
basically everyone is smart about some things, and a few people end up in situations where they can apply themselves to the thing they’re smart at.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Me at 34 with no post secondary education: I wish i could afford to goto school
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I already knew that I and everyone is dumb before my undergrad. Am I smart?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I think you’re more wise than smart?
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Hard no.
exothermic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Masters level living in that PhD level mindset. We a bunch of dumb animals
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We totally aren’t.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve been this way my whole life. I learn something knew and realize I don’t know shit.
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It doesn’t get better, which is the good way. Ever met a self declared highly intelligent person?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
IMO, all three of these statements are correct.
culpritus@hexbear.net 4 months ago
the more you know, the more you know how little anyone knows anything
emergencybird@lemmy.world 4 months 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
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I think the difference is that some people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the same realization.
OpenStars@piefed.social 4 months ago
Hey, the only reason you choose to think that way is... bc it is objectively true.:-|
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This also tracks for programming.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 months 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 months ago
When you’re smart, you don’t need to learn
cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That might be the least smart thing anyone has said today.
tdawg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah yes the paradox of knowledge. The more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn