What do most people gain from knowing this trivium? It’s useful if you’re signaling that you’re on the side of “Science!” (which requires you to similarly “know” a lot of things that’re a lot more dubious, and many things are are meaningless or outright false) but otherwise, unless you’re an astrophysicist or similar, it makes no difference to you one way or the other.
What do most people gain from knowing this trivium? It’s useful if you’re signaling that you’re on the side of “Science!” (which requires you to similarly “know” a lot of things that’re a lot more dubious, and many things are are meaningless or outright false) but otherwise, unless you’re an astrophysicist or similar, it makes no difference to you one way or the other.
Not much. I’m using it as a proxy measurement for general knowledge.
I was thinking about that scene when I wrote this post.