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  • You misunderstood me.

    I wasn’t talking about learning at all.
    I never said anything against the human activity of learning. I feel like I triggered you on something personal, for which I’m sorry.

    Being in the vicinity of information --> gifted the chance to absorb/learn/remember it.

    The girl was gifted (by which I mean randomised circumstances) the chance to put in the effort for those gains, yet she still can’t lift a mountain, much less the galaxy. She wouldn’t have the same gains if she was in a famine, or without arms, or a snail.
    Again, that is not diminishing her efforts, attitude, results in any way, bcs we understand the context of human lives individually (ie she’s amazing).

    Trivia nerds won’t know what random number I’m thinking of. Or what is dark matter. Or which human pooped the largest poop in 1000BC.

    Learning is fun, it has a lot of positive synergies with basically everything, and we tend to rightfully cherish knowledgeable ppl more. And we don’t think knowledgeable ppl are dumb bcs they don’t know things they were never privy to learn. I’m still not sure why would you assume my standing to the opposite, but I think we already cleared that isn’t the case.
    I didn’t move any goalposts (that’s just you trying to win something I think - I did include experts) & I think most understood me correctly. But you just wanted to argue (my use of the word gift) like a master debater & extended my simple point into wannabe “this guy doesn’t appreciate ppl’s efforts & thinks learning is fake”.
    That’s just mean.

    Here, have some inspirational quotes (with maybe the general use of the word gift that is lacking in this convo):