/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16082555
Across a large IQ gap everything looks magic. Hence r/ifuckinglovescience.
Now imagine a post-collapse society with no public education. The science guild comes to your village each year to administer the mystical "IQ test" to the children. As the highest scorer you are offered an apprenticeship. After 7 years assisting geriatric nerds with their interpolations and p values you return to visit your parents.
The lord commander now treats you as an equal. People bring you sick children and you administer basic medicine. Some want to see a demonstration of your powers, so you do the sleight of hand tricks you were taught by that creepy old chemist who spent the last 20 years trying to rediscover the formula for viagra. Everything you do is now a "magic spell".
>>16081832
You sort of can though. Especially now that people run a lot of their lives from laptops and smartphones. I've baked people's boards in the oven to reflow the solder after a black screen of death and they act like I'm doing some kind of voodoo ritual.