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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 38 minutes ago

Also, he is wrong.
The space outside the Noosphere is littered with the silently drifting corpses of words and whole language systems, dead and unchanging, forever cut off from being processed by any living mind.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago

I will accept the assertion that her 3 year old son is smarter than her at face value.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

applies to words as well

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 15 hours ago

Fun fact: written words only appear to last forever because people forgot the words that don't last forever.
Had that showerthought thought after a gummy and bout exploded my mind.

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Aka survivour bias

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago

I met a toddler who probably only knows about 5 words today at work. He would continually say "Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi..." the entire time he saw me. granted I only saw him for about 5 minutes but little dude was about to explode with all his 'hi'-s
His dad looked so tired 😭

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 51 minutes ago

I'm reminded of Crosscode. Something like Hi. Bye. How. Wait. Sorry.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

pretty sure that's where you just have to ignore them so they realize it's pointless to keep going, if you keep responding it continues being fun to repeat it

"ok dude, you have fun, let me know when you're done"

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 22 hours ago

The library of Alexandria begs to differ.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

My headcanon is that a time traveler went back to save it and realized it was all furry porn or something and burned it down himself.

[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago

Damn, too soon. Let's at least give it another 2065 years!

[-] laserm@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Wait until she (or her son) learns about dead languages

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

what is the wolves part even about? is it meant to be a surprise that wolves can die?

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 20 points 19 hours ago

It's supposed to make it credible that a 3 year old said this.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 17 hours ago

"wolf" in this case i guess is management speak for "ambition", meaning "you can make yourself invincible if you just work hard enough". it's a scam to get people to work harder. "you just gotta have that wolf inside you".

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

You've gone too deep, bruv, you gotta come up for air.

[-] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia page doesn't have that anymore. But the talk page shows that it did use to be on the page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Hazelton

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 22 hours ago

Maybe it's possible to find that edit before it was removed somewhere in the edit history

[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours ago

Just checked, the page is being edited quite frequently. Many on the edits are about her lying.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

A three year old would not have the ability to form that concept, let alone verbalize it.

Age two to five years old

Young children are interested in the idea of death, for example in birds, insects and animals. They can begin to use the word 'dead' and develop an awareness that this is different to being alive. However, children of this age do not understand abstract concepts like 'forever' and cannot grasp that death is permanent.

( Source )

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago

The quote doesn't say anything about forever tho. The kid is just figuring out that death happens to people and wolves, but not to words and books. The parent is the one pretending that the kid's making some profound statement about the permanence of ideas.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

This quote is from Albert Einstein. Look it up on Facebook

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

He said that when he was 3

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago
[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago
[-] Famko@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

232.778°C

This knowledge isn't gonna forbid itself!

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You know whose name isn’t in blue? Jack McNevergetslaid.

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