• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    This isn’t about not needing to learn. If you don’t see any use for this newfangled internal combustion then why learn about whether it is a tiny horse or whatever. But this telling people with pride how little you know is almost always eyeroll worthy. Like wow very cool you don’t know something…

    • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      Hold on a moment – I don’t go around with a sandwich board on my chest or emailing every person I know.

      I brought it up here because I thought it relevant to the topic. But if we were talking about hockey or baseball or what makes different clouds form at different levels then I wouldn’t have mentioned it.

      And pride? Again I just mentioned it because it’s something relevant to the topic. I could easily have said I have no clue how nuclear reactors work or how to perform open heart surgery on a human being.

      Would that have been boasting about my lack of knowledge? Or does not knowing about how to perform open heart surgery seem relatively normal?

      I was just making a point that a lot of people don’t bother with some knowledge because it is shit they don’t need to know. And right now using AI tools is in that category for quite a large percentage of the population.

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          8 days ago

          The person in the original post didn’t mention combustion engines.

          Feels like it is a little about me.

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            7 days ago

            Are you for real, I asked if you were like the person in the pic and you said yes lol. And the person in the pic was prideful and boasting about not knowing stuff