theres an interesting difference in tone or _something_ that you can pick up from academics speaking for a general audience vs when they speak to people who have a detectable power level the former is quite performative. i dont trust it
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round up all the academics and put them on their own island until there's only one left, let him/her rule that island
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this is very easy to pull off in philosophy and so it happens a lot there. the level of knowledge and specialization one can accrue on a particular question means that when it comes up you can make anyone look stupid.
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philosophers definitely believe this
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Definitely the most thrilling presentations occur when someone in the audience sees the flaw and just tears it all to shreds as the presenter slowly realizes they wasted months if not years. I’ve only seen this a handful of times.
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There's a fine distinction that non-academics may not recognize, where going jailhouse on a *claim* is not taken as an attack on the *claimant*; you're supposed to have murdered your own ego already in that sense. At least in math, anyway.
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some people are better at pretending this than others
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