1) things people just explain 2) things that make people mad and haughty when asked to explain, e.g. “read a 1st year textbook”
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so in this example the gun banner has to either (a) introspect, try to define X, realize that they can't, then admit that they don't actually know what it is that they propose to ban, then have to question their quest to ban it, which then removes them from their tribe (REEE!) or
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(b) yell at the interlocutor for being so dumb, and that explaining XYZ is beneath them 9 out of 10 monkeys surveyed prefer to scream with rage over introspecting
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Right. The Qualia of “obviousness” is very often a lie, or at best a lie-to-children.
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Categories are hard. Two stories: (1) I remember having a conversation w my dad when I was < 10 about "how many houses are there in the US?". He shot back "what's your definition of a house? It's actually really hard! Apartment? Mobile home? House w 1 broken window? W 20?
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with very limited and specific exception, anytime this is how it plays out, the actual latent problem is unaddressed priors such that "they know that they know it" in your tweet is actually "they think that they know that they know it" / "they are certain that they know it"
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so yes, cognitive dissonance is absolutely mechanism behind producing the observed symptoms but let's not mince words or be unintentionally charitable due to imprecision. reality is they DON'T know what they think they know. either in breadth, or depth, or both. and furthermore
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