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Sigh. I am going to spend too much of the rest of my life squinting at glib, confident prose and trying to figure out whether it makes any sense at all. “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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Sigh. I am going to spend too much of the rest of my life squinting at glib, confident prose and trying to figure out whether it makes any sense at all. “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Welcome to refereeing papers!
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As someone old enough to have had a glimpse of the time before the internet I'd say definitely the former. The fact that almost everyone can find the answer to almost anything in almost no time is a historic break that in my opinion is hardly to underestimate. Of course it didn't solve all our problems and brought a couple of new ones with it.
Yet its so weird that with all that information at our disposal that so few people bother to look things up.
Sometimes I think whether someone makes profitable use of the internet is the real social division these days.
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I only gave it the info that was available in the question, all it came up with were different variations of "no idea".
Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.
Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
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Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
Makes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now. Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?