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>Humanity is about to enter the phase when we will be using things based on ideas no human ever properly understands. This thought … disturbing, somehow? This
by famouswaffles 1mo ago
>Humanity is about to enter the phase when we will be using things based on ideas no human ever properly understands. This thought … disturbing, somehow?
This is just normal though. We were building sophisticated bronze and steel tools long before any complex understanding of metallurgy or chemistry. Medicine is still the wild west.
- bananaflag 1mo agoI first wanted to say fire, even though it's a cliche, but then I thought that in antiquity we used like everything without anything that would qualify today as understanding. Also now we have a lot of stuff that we "know" it works based on complicated numerical simulation. I think the most "understanding" we ever had was in the 40s-50s designing nuclear bombs with slide rules. It was the culture that produced the idea of psychohistory. > Medicine is still the wild west. Reminder that we have no idea how anesthesia works.