Hate it when this happens

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• SourDragon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I don’t blame them. I blame that one particular fish that got a little too curious about what lies beyond the water.

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• Sibshops@feddit.cl ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like we grossly underestimate the intelligence of our ancestors.

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  • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They had the same intelligence as us. What they didn’t have is the same education. That’s the difference that education makes.

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  • threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tibees has a video about the Rhind mathematical papyrus, a writing of math problems used for educating Egyptian scribes from 1650 BCE.

    It describes finding volumes for cylinders using a formula similar to the modern one but with 256/81 (~= 3.16) as the stand-in for π.

    It also has questions on finding concentration of valuable ingredients in finished product. 100L of beer made from 1kg of grain has a lower concentration of grain in the final product than 50L of beer made from the same amount. If you add water to the 50L of beer, it’s value would change and scribes would be expected to calculate the exact change in value.

    Just like there’s a large overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans, there’s an overlap between the smartest ancient people and dumbest people today.

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    • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      256/81 (~= 3.16) as the stand-in for π.

      Interesting choice, it suggests they didn’t have any way to verify the accuracy of that approximation, since 22/7 is way closer, but (4/3)^4 is really cute and elegant.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They were pretty much as smart as we are - many of them more so than many of us today.

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    • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      what’s even crazier to think about is that there were likely several thousands of years where our ancestors were about as cognitively evolved as we are now, with language and society and culture, and simultaneously living alongside other now-extinct hominin species, like neanderthals and denisovans, who were likely similarly cognitively capable. makes me wonder if stories were still have from mythology about elves or dwarves or fae are cultural remnants of a time when we actually did live alongside not-quite-human sapient creatures

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    • wopalopa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there not as book smart as we are but a lot def more street smart than most of us today. different generation different kind of knowledge but same hardware

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s all this asshole’s fault

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is inaccurate. We got here because of women. If men didn’t need to impress women to get nookie, they would have never left the trees.

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  • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So what I’m hearing is fleshlights were too little too late

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    • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I too solve hard mathematical equations to impress my flashlight

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    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are like the wheel, but you put your penis in them.

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• the_q@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I genuinely struggle with how humanity got to where it is. I sometimes question whether aliens are actually real because we’re too stupid to be this advanced.

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We are the aliens. We took over the planet, destroyed it and will soon be gone. Classic hard sci fi trope.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re both that advanced.

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