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You _can_ hammer a nail in using a power drill. But that doesn't mean there aren't better tools for hammering nails with, or jobs that a power drill does way b
by bigiain 7y ago
You _can_ hammer a nail in using a power drill.
But that doesn't mean there aren't better tools for hammering nails with, or jobs that a power drill does way better than hammering nails.
(I'm not _really_ convinced that pop psychology explanations involving our brains being optimised for not-getting-eaten-by-lions are necessarily correct, but I certainly acknowledge that some of our physiology like our vision system and muscle makeup have evolved under different conditions to sitting in a university with instructions to "Write down the problem. Think really hard. Write down the answer.", as Feynman characterised the process of discovering modern physics...)