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Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, there's counterfactual examples of this, so it must not be true.

In pretty much every single relationship worldwide, one person can very easily determine if the recommendation from the other for where to eat or what to watch is correct or not.

And yet successfully figuring out where to eat or what to watch is nigh impossible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think there's a ~~fighter~~ further* problem, it may be true and we just don't know the easy way to do it.