Philosophical Speculations

From a Science Website:

The more we learn about fast radio bursts, the less we know about them. [End quote]

From a non-science website:

Professor Tumuch Lerner announced today that scientists have agreed to stop making new discoveries. “The problem,” he said, “is that the more we discover, the less we know. If this trend continues, then pretty soon we won’t know anything.”

From a non-science website:

Professor Tumuch Lerner announced today that scientists have agreed to stop making new discoveries. “The problem,” he said, “is that the more we discover, the less we know. If this trend continues, then pretty soon we won’t know anything.”

It is both sad and concerning that I genuinely can't tell if that is meant to be serious or a joke.

salvadorreyes371 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:05 am if that is meant to be serious or a joke.

Is it dead serious or a joke full of irony???! I call that state of undecidability the "metamodern condition", and find in very pleasurable and most authentic.