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I sent the Twitter image to chatgpt to convert the image to text and then I put that text into websim which generated a website that does exactly that and it even handles if you graduated recently and it will link you to a timeline of debunked “facts” here’s the link, enjoy! https://websim.ai/c/GeEMLk9DuUC23jV9S

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I got: “We only use 10% of our brains. Modern neuroimaging has shown that we use most of our brain.” In the 90’s I thought this was not in fact, but urban legend, the whole time.

Also: “Christopher Columbus discovered America. Indigenous peoples had been living in the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus arrived.” I didn’t realize that it was implied no one was here when he came.

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yeah idk how good the website it made really is but it sure is interesting that it could just do that on the fly

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I think that brain one was from a game of telephone with the real fact that a large portion of our brain is dedicated to image processing and object identification. Another portion would be dedicated to sound recognition with a decent amount of circuitry going into the recognition and parsing of speech. Memory will also take up some of the capacity as well as mapping desired actions to sequences of signals for muscle activation. After all the things our brains need to do just to accomplish all these things we take for granted are accounted for, it doesn’t leave much capacity left over for thought.

Though, at least in my experience, the most powerful analysis the brain can do is in the subconscious. So many times I’ve faced a difficult problem where I’ve been unable to make any progress, take a break, then later return to a much easier problem. Or even with skill development, try doing something too hard for a bit, then sleep on it and try again the next day and it might suddenly be easier. This works best for dexterity skills, I’ve noticed it a lot in Beat Saber.

So it’s like you can take whatever was left over from the first paragraph, then take a small amount of that and that’s your conscious thought capacity and the rest is given to subconscious processing.

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hmm I do this all the time for anything to do with solving problems, I work on the problem relentlessly until my head is clouded and clearly fried and then I come back later and try again

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yeah the issue with “discovered” is cultural interpretation, not factual. If you assume that indigenous people don’t count, or if non-aristocrats going there doesn’t count as discovery, or if it was discovered by Asian peoples but not yet by Western peoples…

I dunno if a fact-checking website can get into it as it is figuratively and literally critical race theory (ooOOOOooOOOoh!) to have that discussion.

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Vikings discovered the North American continent long before Columbus. Fucker got credit for copying someone’s homework.

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And yet, in the end, it was Amerigo Vespucci who the entire western lands were named after.

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I feel like this site is going to be a great source for many of these

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I think having something that gets vetted by experts would be better, but this might be a good starting point.

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Lemmy Kiss of Death? Or API rate limited or… both 😅

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