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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 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?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.

For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html