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> The concept of there being unknown unknowns must have never registered for so many of the day. "I think history is a lot more interesting and makes a lot mor
by innguest 12y ago
> The concept of there being unknown unknowns must have never registered for so many of the day.
"I think history is a lot more interesting and makes a lot more sense when you finally realize that people in the past were just as aware and smart as us, as opposed to the bumbling idiots we often assume them to be." -- rthomas6 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9032743 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9032743
I disagree with rthomas6 from the cross post linked above. I think in the past people were intellectually dishonest which led them to write and act like know-it-all pathological liars.
- TomSawyer 12y agoYeah, that doesn't happen anymore. Our elite are the real deal.
- kbenson 12y agoNo, but perhaps the common person has enough education now to see and call out the bullshit that may have been able to pass in ages past. It's not that our elites are better, it's that they aren't viewed as exempt from common mishaps and misbehaviors as they perhaps were in the past.
- Torgo 12y agoPeople get their shockingly incorrect sex advice from Youtube personalities now.