Aral Balkan
There’s nothing about being able to make computers go beep-boop that means tech folks are any smarter than you when it comes to anything else. It just means we know how to make computers go beep-boop.
Sometimes I feel the whole world is labouring under one giant appeal to authority fallacy.
Annie Hsh :coffefied: :ww:👾🖖
@aral 100% and, speaking a tech person, this is also a good reminder for tech people too, who often perceive their expertise as having reached some sort of peak that doesn't require them to expand their horizons and gain knowledge on different fields and perspectives, usually leading to a sense of unearned smugness and refusal to accept the possibility of being wrong or not having enough information on something to understand it fully, which leads to a very detached, very limited frame of mind.
Aral Balkan
@fishidwardrobe As someone who both sings and has been programming computers since he was seven, I can tell you the two are nothing alike :) I don’t have perfect pitch and I can sing like nobody’s business. It did take driving our neighbours mad for me to get there thought. On the other hand, the only reason I can code is because I was privileged enough to have had my dad bring home a personal computer and programming books when I was seven for me to play with.
Fish Id Wardrobe
@aral My take: mostly yes, a little bit no.
It's like perfect pitch. It's an innate ability; some folks have it, some don't. You can learn it, too, or something like it. It lets you do things folks without it can't do.
But having perfect pitch doesn't make you a better person.
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