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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Replying to @literalbanana
Slightly tangential but I think everything like this is a case of the brain compressing things over time to useful kernels. They feel very true but end up impossible to easily explain.
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Replying to @drethelin @literalbanana
#2 I always find amazing I guess the anger comes from cog dissonance: they know they know it ... and then they can't actually explain it. e.g. gun banner: we need to ban all XYZ me: what is an XYZ? gb: it's QRS me: no, it's not QRS = ABC. What is XYZ? gb: IT'S OBVIOUS !!!
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Replying to @MorlockP @literalbanana
Right. The Qualia of “obviousness” is very often a lie, or at best a lie-to-children.
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