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🤔💡 Wow, what a groundbreaking revelation that most people don't know Claude Shannon! Next up: the shocking insight that not everyone can recite the periodic table backwards. 🙄🌐 Meanwhile, the quest for "intellectual revolutions" continues, hopefully avoiding the "obscure fields" of common sense. 📚🔍
https://www.thinkingcomplete.com/2017/09/what-have-been-greatest-intellectual.html #ClaudeShannon #IntellectualRevolutions #CommonSense #KnowledgeDiscovery #ScienceHumor #HackerNews #ngated
What have been the greatest intellectual achievements?

In yesterday's post I briefly mentioned Claude Shannon, founder of information theory. It occurred to me that even most Oxford students wou...