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[–] 89 points 10 months ago (18 children)

At some point that joke has to be so old that everyone has heard it at least once... Right?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

    Same. But those things are things you learn in primary school

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  • [+] -2 points 10 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

    They're learning what arabic numerals are for sure, unless they're a hopeless dumb fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Coming from a midwestern American educational system, we were never taught the origin of numbers. They just teach what the numbers are.

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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    TranscriptionA post on Threads, consisting first of text, and then of a screenshot of two Tweets, each a reply to the one after it.

    By "georgehtakei":

    This was an IQ test.

    By "Catturd ™" @catturd2:

    😂😂😂 we warned you.

    By "Polymarket" @Polymarket:

    BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Slight correction (and perhaps unimportant)Only George Takei's post was on Threads. He's sharing a screenshot of the other two, which are on Twitter. I don't want to link to Threads, but here's a screenshot in dark mode:

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh thanks! I was wondering why the first one didn't display a handle when the other two did.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Are you running a bot that does this? I was considering making one for instances to run, but was concerned that people might think "AI bad" about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nope, just me, and just when I feel like it (often when I see a post I want to comment on anyway).

    Ideally, OPs would do it on their own posts. Failing that, it'd be great if there were a bunch of people who could follow my lead and do it on a post or two per day. AI can be helpful, especially for OCR, but personally I wouldn't trust it to point out salient parts of the image in a relatively easy-to-read format.

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  • [–] 68 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    It's not an IQ test. IQ tests are supposed to quantify your ability to reason in a space in which you have no context. You have to have the context that Arabic numerals are the most common numbers in order to not fall for this. This is a critical thinking test (critical thinking requires both logic and a world view founded in reality)

    ... yes, I am autistic, why do you ask?

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    You must be fun at parties, because I love having conversations like these. I usually learn a lot and I get to share my own similar esoteric interests. Epistemology is probably my favorite, but I love how it ties into Psychology.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know if you intended your comment to be humorous, but I found it hilarious. The phrase "you must be fun at parties" instinctually caused me to be on edge, because it's so often said in an assholish, sarcastic way (especially online), but I was delighted to see that the rest of your comment thoroughly subverted that through nerdy earnestness. The contrast and the surprise was quite funny to me.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I have also loved epistemology ever since it was a required course in my high school curriculum.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago

    I'm envious of that. I don't think it was ever more than touched on for me, well into an advanced degree. I only got into it by trying to define my own perspective on reality. I was looking for ontology, which led to metaphysics, but I kept getting distracted by all the things I couldn't know.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's very well demonstrated that even child IQ tests are dependent on prior and culture specific knowledge. It's a significant problem with them tbh.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    it is, but the question is more like "someone has made a claim online that sounds scandalous! Do you a) immediately reply with your assumptions, or b) find sources and gather information about the claim before responding?"

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Next thing you know, he'll make al-gebra mandatory, together with those al-gorisms!!

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    And that Moo Slam al-jabr, also too!

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    George Takei is paying for a checkmark over on that dumpster fire?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    That's a good question. I wonder if they give them to celebrities to drive engagement and incentivize average users paying for them.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Takei is one of the GOATs but he should understand the bigoted nest of vipers over there more than most. Engagement only fans those flames, regardless of perspective.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah. I wonder what would happen if half of all celebrities switched to Lemmy overnight?

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