JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoIf a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?message-squaremessage-square401fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down17
arrow-up1271arrow-down1message-squareIf a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square401fedilink
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up36·9 months agoIf someone working in semiconductor manufacturing were to answer this question they would probably have to say “I make sand think” and just walk away.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 months ago“You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?”
minus-squareJimmyeatsausage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoNot much different than weirder than meat thinking. For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
If someone working in semiconductor manufacturing were to answer this question they would probably have to say “I make sand think” and just walk away.
“You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?”
Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.
For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html