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by Kim_Bruning 1828 days ago
You can firmly hold sharp objects by the sharp end relatively safely; it's the letting go that can be dangerous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwuQPfvSSlo (Extreme example: At one point in time, people would sometimes hold sharp swords by blade -in the middle of a swordfight - and win!)

To cut something you need sharp object + cutting motion. No cutting motion means no effect.

I say relatively safe; because of course you're putting yourself in a position where you theoretically can get hurt if you accidentally loosen your grip.
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giardini 1827 days ago
That is different: he is pinching the sword with his hands. And FWIW it is far better to have your hand cut by a sword than to suffer a fatal wound.

In my situation I'm grasping a handful of utensils blindly (they're under soapy water), some which are knives. I can pull them up and sort them out w/o damage. Why?

The hand, and the combination of hand + eye, are remarkably facile. But in a suds-filled sink the eye is useless and the hand alone governs.

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Kim_Bruning 1826 days ago
At 4:15 he also demonstrates full grip, then does a few full power murder strokes (mordhau) while holding the sword that way, and shows his uncut hands after.

Of course, we don't have to live quite that dangerously ;-)

If knives were to instantly cut on touch, blindly groping for them in the suds would be way too dangerous. (And I haven't really ever gotten cut that way either, so go figure)

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giardini 1825 days ago
I get it: you like swords. Well I've played with knives. I've grabbed knives and machetes and other sharp-edged tools. I know how to grab a blade and all that good stuff. There's plenty about swords and knives somewhere else on the WWW.

While washing dish utensils through my life I have observed something I thought was truly surprising and unexplained. Can't we focus on that?

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Kim_Bruning 1825 days ago
Maaaybe I do like swords. And I mean, who wouldn't want to use that particular video as a reference sometime?

To be fair I honestly did think that that was the part that was mystifying you. Sorry about that.

I guess you're focusing more on the neural-network self-learning going on? Or... what's the interesting part to you?

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