Fake Kangaroos

By Leo Gura - March 11, 2025

I just heard this shocking story:

The story goes that the name for kangaroos originates from a time when some British official first arrived in Australia and saw a kangaroo. He pointed at it and asked a local aboriginal, “What do you call those things?” The aboriginal told him, “Kangaroo”, by which he meant, “I don’t understand.”

This story may or may not be true. But either way, it’s quite a perfect story for our epistemic purposes.

Nothing you know is real.

This is Kangaroo Awakening. This cannot be unseen.

Update: I have been told that this story is false. But it’s a great story.

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