Lizard on Nostr: npub1q2t0r…hjr8a Hey, it's hardly your fault. No human mind can contain even ...
npub1q2t0rcegc7kvxryj63dk6sqndmzzg82qjykttlymvcayrtn968fsphjr8a (npub1q2t…jr8a) Hey, it's hardly your fault. No human mind can contain even 0.0000001% of all knowledge.
That one bit struck me as odd because I read a lot of older pulp and comics, and the "Middle ages people thought the world was flat" myth was very widespread in the 1920s and 1930s when they were published. So I googled where it started.
For more on the problems of networks of trust - of bad information being continually re-transmitted and authoritative sources relying on it and then being cited, ad infinitum, look at this: https://mrsuttonntu.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/popeye-spinach-iron/
There's multiple levels of myth and counter-myth, each refutation showing itself to be erroneous, yet it's trivial to find seemingly-reliable sources which are at one level or another of the sediments of lore and declare that to be the truth.
And it's an insoluble problem, because outside of having unedited scans, and infinite time to search through them, we HAVE to rely on other people's summaries and trust THEY did the research. /1
That one bit struck me as odd because I read a lot of older pulp and comics, and the "Middle ages people thought the world was flat" myth was very widespread in the 1920s and 1930s when they were published. So I googled where it started.
For more on the problems of networks of trust - of bad information being continually re-transmitted and authoritative sources relying on it and then being cited, ad infinitum, look at this: https://mrsuttonntu.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/popeye-spinach-iron/
There's multiple levels of myth and counter-myth, each refutation showing itself to be erroneous, yet it's trivial to find seemingly-reliable sources which are at one level or another of the sediments of lore and declare that to be the truth.
And it's an insoluble problem, because outside of having unedited scans, and infinite time to search through them, we HAVE to rely on other people's summaries and trust THEY did the research. /1