This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

7:31 DragonFogel The premise is that magic exists, but Earth is in a magical deadzone.
17:31 Norivia haha
17:32 Norivia I like this
17:32 DragonFogel So they don't know about this until they develop FTL technology and go beyond their boundaries.
17:33 DragonFogel And then suddenly, everyone uses magic, and for the most part doesn't really understand science, because they didn't have as much need to when magic could solve their problems.
17:33 DragonFogel You may not know the germ theory to understand why the village keeps falling sick year after year, but if the mages can heal everyone up in a couple of days, do you really care?
17:34 DragonFogel But like I said, my issue's been bringing it down to a personal level.
17:35 Norivia Fogel, you ever heard the term prosthetic knowledge?
17:36 DragonFogel I haven't.
17:36 Norivia I dunno if it helps as far as bringing it to a personal level, but I think it's relevant
17:36 DragonFogel What is it?
17:36 Norivia so, prosthetic knowledge is knowledge you don't possess, but you can access through a tool
17:36 Norivia like something you look up on wikipedia
17:37 Norivia people are already saying there's a lack of this knowledge retention because we have all this data at our fingertips
17:38 Norivia there's no need to really /learn/ it if we can look it up on the fly
17:38 Schazardous fine by fucking me
17:38 Schazardous instant accessibility to the sum of human history and knowledge is fucking amazing
17:38 Norivia I agree!
17:39 Norivia I think like do-anything-with-magic is an extension of this
17:39 Schazardous yeah there is work and knowledge that requires training and muscle memory but like
17:39 Norivia why do we care how it really works if we can fix it up with magic whenever
17:39 Schazardous it's a huge advancement from relying on /individuals/ to act as a repository of knowledge for a specific subject
17:39 Norivia yeah, definitely
17:40 Norivia It's a movement to a collective knowledge base
17:40 Schazardous yeah no offense but like
17:40 Schazardous in a generation where we don't get a whole lifetime career's worth of job security like our parents
17:41 Schazardous it's inefficient to cram/retain a bunch of extremely specific information about a very specific job/thing/whatever
17:41 Norivia totally
17:41 Schazardous better to be better at picking things up given sufficient documentation/prior advice
17:41 Norivia didn't mean to sound like I was advocating against it, just wanted to draw parallels
17:42 Schazardous yeah no it's cool I'm not ragging on you actually
17:42 Schazardous I'm just like
17:42 Schazardous very enthusiastically pointing from personally experience why the thing you said is cool
17:42 Norivia yeah!

Who wants to talk about this, I have to get my butt out of work and go find food but I didn't know there was a term for this! And it makes me pretty happy!