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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's this meme of 'why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of'.

I didn't know about the meme but for a while, YouTube recommended me reviews of the book Sapiens which tries to encompass all of human history, starting from evolution and everyone was like "I learned alot but in the field of my experience, it's garbage" and I felt like c'mon, don't you see the pattern

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I switched newspapers when I noticed that every time my newspaper write about something I actually knew about, they wrote garbage.

    Sapiens does present some really powerful ideas, though. I enjoyed it a lot, but the book clearly glosses over a lot of details. Then again, it tries to tackle a ridiculously big scope, so I can see how it can't get into all of the details. I still consider it a worthy read despite its shortcomings. But read it more for the ideas than for the facts.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't the "idea" a very eurocentric understanding of progress and how colonialism is actually good because it civilized the colonized? But I'm sure there is more to the book than that

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's not what I picked up from it. The biggest idea that it presents very early in the book is that of a shared subjective truth: most of the things that make up our society, like countries, laws, corporations, etc. do not exist objectively; they only exist because we all believe in them. Objectively, these things don't exist, but our society is built upon everybody agreeing that these imaginary orders exist, and we're constantly inventing new imaginary structures on top of that.

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