Imagine if people from the 1300s were here on Twitter with the rest of us, talking exactly like present-day Twitter users
"smh 🙄 I'm literally exhausted by all these people who don't understand bad humors"
"smh 🙄 I'm literally exhausted by all these people who don't understand bad humors"
Consider that the apex of any present-day field of study is likely the top of a ladder that spans from hundreds of years ago to today, and that naïve assumptions about said field might not differ greatly from our medieval poaster's
Further, consider that it is impossible for anyone to grok hundreds of years' worth of insights for *every* field within one lifetime, no matter how much we can compress them
Hopefully this better illustrates the potential virtue of "levels"
Hopefully this better illustrates the potential virtue of "levels"
https://twitter.com/ccneill/status/1336211681773559810
If you're a subject matter expert, in a very limited sense you're a time traveler. You've internalized insights relevant to your field of expertise that took hundreds of years for humanity to accumulate
And yet here I am, none the wiser about any of this, polluting your replies
And yet here I am, none the wiser about any of this, polluting your replies
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