• The Picard ManeuverOP
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    277 months ago

    And now we’re the squishy casters who have to study and invent concepts like “credit scores” while tortoises just happily munch leaves and chill all day.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 months ago

      “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.”