I do this sometimes. It's usually because someone wants me to explain succinctly why I rejected a commonly held fundamental premise and the Big Ass Book IS the succinct explanation. https://twitter.com/yelloJoltacious/status/1054865885868032000 …
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It's a common fallacy these days. People want you to reproduce your whole worldview to prove your point. Then they won't debate you on the philosophical level they demanded in the first place.
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It's effectively just a ploy to waste people's time, I find. And these days I tend to treat it as such. Anyone genuinely curious shouldn't be learning from me. They should be learning from who I'm learning from, because they're smarter than me.
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I agree, it is designed to frustrate and waste time and I ignore it as well even though I'm capable of dueling them for hours if necessary. Trolling is more effective.
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I just call them out on their shit. If they care about this so much, why do they want some anon to summarize it instead of citing their sources?
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There's a good faith and bad faith version of this, muddled by general information overload. What makes it particularly interesting for me is that I remember ideas instead of people, and most use names as a reference for a collection of ideas and arguments. I'm wired backwards.
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Hence my hedge mage approach. There's pros and cons to it. So...fun times?
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