Post #4418991
2026-08-06 12:45 UTC
@lankohr@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social It's just maths. As the radius of your circle of knowledge increases, the border with everything you don't know increases 2π times more. You have only become more ignorant *relatively*. :-)
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@Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz 2026-08-06 13:25
@woo@fosstodon.org @lankohr@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social It's even worse - if knowledge is a high dimensional sphere, the surface grows extremely quickly with r^(d-1), and almost all your knowledge is at the boundary to the unknown.