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One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are, blinded both by our knowledge of them and
by readthenotes1 3y ago
One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are, blinded both by our knowledge of them and our certainty of their limited knowledge. Limited knowledge does not mean that one is not innately smart though, and unable to figure some stuff out...
- AdieuToLogic 3y ago> One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are ... I think of this as "hubris of the now." This is where people cannot fathom how previous generations could achieve what they did without the tools and/or knowledge which exists in the present. An example of this is found when contemplating how atmospheric differential equations were solved with computers having about 4k of RAM in the 1940's.
- AdieuToLogic 3y agoHere is another data point which supports your conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism