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An analogy might be many of the lost trades, to do with things like horses, steam and agriculture. There are skills from a couple of hundred years ago that hav
by femto 4y ago
An analogy might be many of the lost trades, to do with things like horses, steam and agriculture. There are skills from a couple of hundred years ago that have more or less been lost. At the same time we have widespread skills that were unknown back then.
- noduerme 4y agoBut - to run a modern farm, you have to understand the basics of agriculture as understood 2,000 years ago. To build an engine you have to know everything those engineers knew about steam power in 1850, and everything done since then. The past knowledge was subsumed into the present skill. And up until about 5 minutes ago, to draw a teddy bear skiing on Mars or to write a routine that analyzed another function, you had to have some set of skills. If you remove the need for skills from it, there's no more creative work for people to do is there? Where do we go from here?
- KptMarchewa 4y agoYou don't have to learn tons of poor ideas and local maximums the people had. When you learn physics now, you can skip aether theories altogether, or infinitesimals in math.
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- femto 4y agoNot necessarily. The implementation changes. For example, riveting has largely been replaced by welding. It's unlikely a riveter today would be able to match the skill of a riveter from yesteryear. Given an arc welder a person from the golden age of riveting would be unlikely to match the skill of today's welder. Even if we don't lose the knowledge of how to do these things, we often lose the ability to put that theory into practice with the same level of skill.