Originally Posted by
Syn7
I don't think the use of simple machines and a shit ton of slave labour makes them smarter than us. Besides, smarter isn't the right word. We are for sure more knowledgeable. Let's not forget all the ridiculous shit they believed. Crocodile and hippopotamus most certainly do not have a say on what the read is at the cataracts.
Don't get me wrong, amazing accomplishments, but let's keep this in perspective. We have machines on other planets. We have cured many diseases. We have seen distant galaxies. We developed the gravitational constant. We can predict the charge on a particle with very little information. We have very accurate and reliable microsieves. We can pack upwards of 10 billion transistors into the tiniest package. I can go on for days. So yeah, dudes like Archimedes were really smart, but we have come a long way from then.
And we can bang out a like pyramid in significantly less time for less cost and with less people. This is progress in that respect. So smarter, probably not. More knowledgeable, certainly not. And if you want to throw a spiritual element to the conversation, fine, but let's keep that in perspective too. You wanna believe, cool, but we have to admit that there is no substantial foundation for any of these beliefs. And to simply assume that there is and we have just lost this knowledge is a ridiculous and far fetched hypothesis, to put it mildly.
Let's keep it real here, we're all agnostic.