@themattsimpson @St_Rev > do it and then we wouldn’t have such high status. But that doesn’t actually seem to be motivation. Puzzled.
@Meaningness @themattsimpson I caught my advisor talking like that to someone in the lounge, when I tried listening in he clammed up.
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@St_Rev @themattsimpson “talking like that” = “actually explaining what’s going on”? -
@Meaningness @themattsimpson Yep. -
@St_Rev @themattsimpson That’s very interesting! Maybe some subset of students are picked as the anointed elite, and we were not among them… -
@St_Rev @themattsimpson Everybody else is sink-or-swim, but if you appear to have the “right” attitude, you are admitted to the priesthood. -
@St_Rev @themattsimpson … and then you are explicitly taught the stuff we had to figure out for ourselves. Wonder how much I failed to figur -
@St_Rev So I went to library and tracked down Dedekind cuts, and after that analysis made sense… but not before. Deliberate withholding… -
@Meaningness Or they couldn't remember offhand and didn't want to be embarassed. -
@St_Rev Oh, I hadn’t thought of that! Yeah, and so with close students they’d be willing to let slip that they couldn’t remember, but with - 1 more reply
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