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yeah im dumb as all hell <excellent air guitar solo>
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It's me. I'm here. What's up, you need something mathed or whatever?
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Jan 30, 2021 07:39
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knowing where the manuals are and how to look up stuff in them makes you smarter than most educated people.
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Jan 30, 2021 07:57
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its not me because I post. and I definitely am not smart enough to comprehend how bad my posting is
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Jan 30, 2021 07:59
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the girl reading this 
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Jan 30, 2021 11:15
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axolotl farmer posted:knowing where the manuals are and how to look up stuff in them makes you smarter than most educated people. it was a sad day when i realized this. my estimate for how smart a group of people could be fell by quite a bit. i’d never thought of myself as smart, and when i realized i was probably really in the upper quartile like teachers used to treat me, and what that really meant about everyone else.... my internal reaction was “oh noooo...” if you people are expecting major smart to come from me to magic all this bullshit into something useful you poor dumb fuckers are going to be sorely disappointed. my powers of smrt consist almost entirely of “can read manual to find answer to question” and “kinda remember a previous relevant experience that can inform current situation” and apparently this is a superpower or something??
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Jan 30, 2021 16:10
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sometimes i feel like that guy in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books that has to re-derive how to operate a pencil every time he picks one up , and is also the person who makes every important decision for every governing body in the universe. like i cannot seriously be the one who leads the work on unfucking this mess, can i? dont we have anyone else around who actually knows what the hell is going on? wtf?
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Jan 30, 2021 16:19
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seriously. if i end up being the smartest person here... we’re hosed. sorry.
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Jan 30, 2021 16:21
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axolotl farmer posted:knowing where the manuals are and how to look up stuff in them makes you smarter than most educated people. knowing how to know things is so undervalued as a skill
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Jan 30, 2021 16:23
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yeah, it is one of those disheartening discoveries that exceptional intelligence is kind of more mundane than one thinks, and the idea of "superintelligence" is largely imaginary. some kind of inheritance from the ancient greeks where someone sufficiently smart could sit down, close their eyes, and intuit the workings of the universe by pure reason. when in reality pretty much all progress happens through experimentation and orderly but not that otherwordly heads being slammed against a wall repeatedly.
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Jan 30, 2021 16:25
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Agile Vector posted:knowing how to know things is so undervalued as a skill yeah. yeah it is. we teach this in stages. step 1 is learn to read. step 2 is learn that books contain more than just “Dick pats the bunny.” step 3 is to ask a question whos answer is contained in a book, and see how many can go find it. step 4 is to learn how to write things down in books in such a fashion as to allow others to use the book at step 3. i think for many, if not most people, they never really get past step 2. and that’s terrifying. my thermo class was split between the people who could take the 3 laws and 2 corollary integrals and derive from them whatever they needed to analyze the problem and people who never made it over that hump. i think only 1/3 of the class passed. and we were seniors in a decent and rigorous engineering curriculum who had already gotten past the weed out classes.
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Jan 30, 2021 16:37
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Agile Vector posted:knowing how to know things is so undervalued as a skill if aaron sorkin has taught me anything it’s actually that being smart is the ability to rattle off facts suuuuuper fast
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Jan 30, 2021 16:40
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President Beep posted:if aaron sorkin has taught me anything it’s actually that being smart is the ability to rattle off facts suuuuuper fast its actually the ability to correct people
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Jan 30, 2021 16:57
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lol
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Jan 30, 2021 16:58
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carry on then posted:its actually the ability to correct people 
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Jan 30, 2021 17:01
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carry on then posted:its actually the ability to correct people beep is owned again
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Jan 30, 2021 18:29
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carry on then posted:its actually the ability to correct people 
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Jan 31, 2021 01:09
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Roosevelt posted:beep is owned again carry on then should return him for a refund
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Jan 31, 2021 01:45
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:carry on then should return him for a refund oh no not again
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Jan 31, 2021 01:56
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hey i promised to be nice now
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my homie dhall posted:the girl reading this
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