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think about why you need to put energy into this? do you really care about this or do you just want to win internet points? there are so many topics in the wo
by barkingcat 3y ago
think about why you need to put energy into this?
do you really care about this or do you just want to win internet points?
there are so many topics in the world, why do you need to put energy into this one?
it's kinda like someone asking which programming language to learn because there are too many of them and all the introduction to programming tutorials are too obtuse and too hard, without a real reason for learning programming in the first place.
like the previous poster said, if you do care about it, the wikipedia article and the footnotes are a good place to start.
- pizza 3y agowell i imagine they would want to put energy into this one for the particular reason that everyone is currently always saying this topic in particular changes basically absolutely everything in the world. but that would be pure speculation on my part.
- barkingcat 3y agofor me, there are tons of aspects of the world that changes absolutely everything in the world all the time. medicine, environment, climate effects, stuff that the James Webb Telescope is observing (for example the idea that the universe is way older than we thought), every single moment we are creating or observing something new and suffering from (or benefiting from) the impacts of what we found or created. If a person wants to go from "I don't know anything about this topic such that a wikipedia article is too confusing to interpret" to "I can understand an arxiv paper and discuss about its significance" they absolutely need to know why they want to do this. There are a lot of topics in the world, and it's past the time where a DaVinci can master topics from anatomy to physical science to philosophy all in one lifetime. Gotta pick and chose, and knowing why is a big part of picking.