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All humans are trained monkeys. Some of those monkeys are self-trained on technological wizardry. Why are you comparing hobbies to professional cooking? I'm gl

• causality0 4y ago
  Yes, but you know what a farm is. You know that animals reproduce, that their infants grow by eating vegetable matter. I can't write HTML either, but I know that it's text which describes the content and layout of a web page. I have younger relatives who don't know what a file is. They don't comprehend that a document and a picture and a video and an audio track are all same sort of thing interpreted in a different way.
  • majormajor 4y ago
    Most people's (in the US's) mental image of a farm is probably way different from the likely-very-industrialized farms that are actually producing most of their food. Strikes me as fairly similar to the surface-level of understanding they have about "apps" and "operating systems" and "memory," actually.
    • wngr 4y ago
      To understand the difference between a manual and a highly industrialised process doesn’t matter here. It’s about the underlying principles that define how things work.
• drewcoo 4y ago
  > Why are you comparing hobbies to professional cooking? I can't tell whether you really don't understand or if you're straw manning an analogy and pretending innocence; trolling. It's called a simile. It doesn't require all aspects of the two things being compared to be equivalent. The things are not being compared on the basis of the professional status of the "trained monkey," but on the understanding they have of the sources of the things they use.
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