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minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down7·edit-25 months ago “he invented an improved form of the steam engine” Literally the exact point I’m making. In that statement, he didn’t invent the steam engine. He invented an improved form of it. But not the steam engine itself.
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoNo one has ever invented anything, since we take concepts were familiar with and mix them
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoYeah that’s true. We didn’t invent TV or anything…
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoCorrect. Tvs are improvements on still images, which themselves are an improvement on pictographs, which are an improvement on transmission of ideas via language. To be clear, we very much invented all of that.
Literally the exact point I’m making.
In that statement, he didn’t invent the steam engine. He invented an improved form of it. But not the steam engine itself.
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No one has ever invented anything, since we take concepts were familiar with and mix them
Yeah that’s true. We didn’t invent TV or anything…
Correct. Tvs are improvements on still images, which themselves are an improvement on pictographs, which are an improvement on transmission of ideas via language.
To be clear, we very much invented all of that.