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Ah yes the paradox of knowledge. The more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn
I was arguing with a engineer two weeks ago about systems. I never met him before. But he had a few drinks and interrupted our conversation. And I nearly lost my shit because of how confident this guy was speaking, saying obvious things and being vague, while not saying anything at all. Like, “This system isn’t good at all! We should all follow Clean Code principles!”
Then someone pulled me aside and said, “Go easy on the guy. He’s only been in the industry for a year.”
And I did feel bad. But also like, my dude… You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.
You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.
I wish I had your optimism about humanity.
This guy sounds like management material.
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Best to rest the comment you’re replying to before going on a tirade - this guy drunkenly interrupted OPs conversation to lecture them, it’s a proportionate response, even if maybe not optimal
shut up
I think it’s a general thing with highly capable persons in expert and highly intellectual domains that eventually you kinda figure out what Socrates actually meant with “All I know is that I know nothing”
I feel like that sentiment is easily reached by anyone who is curious and likes to learns, so a lot of people.
If one thinks a lot, likes to learn and, maybe more important, thinks about knowledge and learning things, that person will probably get there.
A certain educational background probably helps but is neither required nor sufficient, IMHO.
Everyone is just making it up as we go along.
Be skeptical of anyone who claims they have the answer.
42!
But who has the question?!
:P
I know you’re being cheeky, but we did get an answer to what the Ultimate Question was…
spoiler
The Ultimate Question “What do you get when you multiply six by nine” is found by Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
The tainted question because the B ark landed on earth ruining the results.
What is 41! Multip*ied by 42?
There’s such a thing as knowledge, which qualifies you to do some Job’s better than the rest. Keep that in mind.
Me at 34 with no post secondary education: I wish i could afford to goto school
I have come to realize a PhD just means you have spent a lot of time thinking about what you are doing.
Doesn’t mean what you are doing is smart really. Just well thought about.
The more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. People who know nothing often think they know everything.
Coming out of my undergrad I definitely did not feel that. I think it should be relabeled to high-school and undergrad is I feel SO dumb
Graduated and am working as a junior engineer and I basically feel like I have a mountain of stuff I need to learn, I can see I’ve grown since I started a year ago but man is there still so much for me to learn
wisdom is understanding what we dont know
I’ve forgotten more than I know.
I’ve been this way my whole life. I learn something new and realize I don’t know shit.
It doesn’t get better, which is the good way. Ever met a self declared highly intelligent person?
“All I know is that I know nothing.”
That’s it, no discussion.
There’s people who don’t understand what that means.
Perhaps they are they wisest of all.
that’s more than some people who think they know everything.
My all time favorite “Stig Fact” from Top Gear is
“They say that he knows only two things about ducks…and both of them are wrong”
Which would arguably qualify as knowing less than nothing about ducks 😁
Whenever I see this quote (or others like it) I hear it read in Bill’s voice from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Bill : Socrates [SOH -crates]- ’ the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
Ted: Dude, that’s us!
I disagree. Most people seem dumb, but there are select few which are incredibly genius.
Like, I heard of a model theorist who produces quality papers every month or so. Then there is also Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat’s last theorem through labyrinth of Langlands. The complexity and depth of the field is just insane.
The last one is me with only an associates except I’m licensed under that associates to provide health services and that just makes idiots of us all on a daily and often even hourly basis. “You put what in your where now? …and why did I go to school to be the person you call to get it back out???”
