[kwlug-disc] Just look up

[Doug Moen]

Thanks for the review Mikalai.
I liked your quote:
> Sometimes I define a nerd as somebody who thinks that 
the purpose of communication is to submit your ideas to peer review.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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