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TaylorS1986 · 3500 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hey Hubski, what are your thoughts on scientific illiteracy?
I think the big issue is that the amount of factual and theoretical knowledge we have has exploded exponentially over the past 400 years. As late as the 1500s a sufficiently intelligent person could know everything known in their own society at least on a basic level. Today there is just so much stuff out there that no one can even know a tiny fraction of the sum of human knowledge.