"X is just Y phrased differently!" Yeah, and? People vary. How you understand things is not universal.
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Replying to @drethelin @literalbanana
people don't object to rephrasings presented as rephrasings, they object to rephrasings presented as novel insights
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @drethelin
both reading and citing every *potentially* isomorphic thing seems like a huge burden on both author and reader
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Replying to @literalbanana @drethelin
i don't think that's required for correct presentation of novelty-epistemic status
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nobody gets mad at people for rediscovering (rephrasings of) obscure old ideas
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isn't it usually a dominance game though "oh, you're so cute, thinking you thought of a thing, when what you thought of is a version of this thing that a very important dude thought and which i read about during my very expensive education"
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typical case i have in mind is "dude, i just spent a quarter hour reading your post and it turns out to just reinvent modus ponens"
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @chaosprime and
maybe you guys hang out in more advanced places where this doesn't constantly happen
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or less advanced places where somebody reinventing modus ponens would be a miracle it does sound like your first mistake was reading a post though
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