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One of my favorite talks was named something like "Writing for Engineers" and had a drawing of what we think human knowledge is (a constantly expanding universe
by medvezhenok 4y ago
One of my favorite talks was named something like "Writing for Engineers" and had a drawing of what we think human knowledge is (a constantly expanding universe of "things" that we discover), versus what human knowledge actually is (a filter upon a greater set of facts out there that represents the collective views of a group of people alive at the time. Things can appear and disappear from it, knowledge gained does not remain in the public consciousness unless someone actively knows and cares about it).
Just reinforces the thought that discovering something is not valuable in and of itself. You have to also make other people care about the thing that you have discovered.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAbsolutely! It brings up and makes accessible some really great epistemological questions that we tend to pass by. For me, it's easy to focus on the grand scientific process at the expense of examining how forgettance operates at the small group or even individual level. Forgetting Practices in the Data Sciences[1] for example, helped me start to identify these sites in my own system of work. 1. Muller, Strohmayer 2022 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3491102.3517644 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3491102.3517644