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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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    If someone working in semiconductor manufacturing were to answer this question they would probably have to say “I make sand think” and just walk away.

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      “You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?”

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      Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.

      For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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