secrecy by means of non-disclosure is essentially an obsolete phenomenon, so this is the only kind of knowledge worth calling "occult knowledge" at this point:https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1193302182478483456 …
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in software engineering, a stellar example of occult knowledge is the Single Responsibility Principle. getting it is a task of induction from example. that's hard, though, so instead people move around simple verbal statements about it that are wronghttps://hackernoon.com/you-dont-understand-the-single-responsibility-principle-abfdd005b137 …
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the SRP is directly and effectively occulted *by* the easy-to-understand presentations which are made of it. and we see with the millions of Java architecture astronauts it has spawned that this kind of thing can be massively destructive. be careful with the occult, kids
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This is the point of initiations, right? Rather than transmitting knowledge directly, you create the conditions in which the student can derive the same conclusion
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i'm not honestly sure that that is the point of initiations but it certainly seems like it should be
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