[kwlug-disc] Just look up

[Mikalai Birukou]

May be you've heard about this new movie. I highly recommend it.

I personally had a blast. When was the last time, that within mere 40 
minutes someone tells you that "you talk like this" and you see that a 
particular conversation pattern, you've been in, is offensive not only 
to your senses.

Let's note that this is definitely not a nerds vs normies expose, as the 
most damaging thing is a nerd full of hubris, i.e. without peer review. 
Somehow, the famous question from Dawkins' lecture, "what if you're 
wrong?", is just an entertainment in normie's discussion about god, 
while "what if you're wrong, building that nuclear plant near Lithuanian 
boarder?" is important indeed.

I find Joscha's quote in https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM?t=228 eyeopening, 
to say the least: "Sometimes I define a nerd as somebody who thinks that 
the purpose of communication is to submit your ideas to peer review. And 
normal people understand that the primary purpose of communication is to 
negotiate alignment. And these purposes tend to conflict." Followed 
somewhere by voluminous and funny "... when you try to make him or her a 
gift of information."


I love you guys. I miss seeing you all in physical format. Happy New Year.