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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Oct 2020

      Yesterday I asked what random skills people had. Surprisingly common answers: picking the right Tupperware container, catching falling objects, knowing the number of letters in words, guessing people's weights, knowing the time without looking at a clock, swatting flies.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Oct 2020

      I'd been wondering if there's a pattern here, and I just saw one. These are all very low-tech. These are all skills people could have had 500 years ago.

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        1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Oct 2020

          I have a further theory, though this is speculative: perhaps the people with these skills are people who simply haven't lost abilities that everyone had when we were hunter-gatherers.

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        2. Poe‏ @legalHSKpanda 10 Oct 2020
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          All points to Survival instincts Paul.

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        3. Daniel Simons‏ @Daniel_Simons 10 Oct 2020
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          The most important skills of all.

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        1. Brainstorming.com‏ @Brainstorming03 10 Oct 2020
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          We are skillful at what we practice often. Now you know your audience:)

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        1. Ulisses Sampaio  💉 💉‏ @UlissesPSampaio 10 Oct 2020
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          For me: catching falling objects and killing mosquitos with only one hand (by catching them in closed fist). Both somewhat useful 😅

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        1. mathieu‏ @tabasko 10 Oct 2020
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          They’re also skills with instant feedback on success/failure.

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        1. Dirkjan Ochtman‏ @djco 10 Oct 2020
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          Maybe the intersection between random and high-tech is small/non-salient?

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        2. haliday‏ @michaelhaliday 10 Oct 2020
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          You might have screwed the result by adding the modifier “useless”.

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        3. haliday‏ @michaelhaliday 10 Oct 2020
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          Sorry. Skewed. Sometimes autocorrect is funnier than others...

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        1. Trisha Jain‏ @ishatrain 10 Oct 2020
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          i'm gonna say my tupperware selecting skills are pretty evolved

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