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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When people get mad and say “jeez it’s so basic read a first-year textbook” I suggest doing exactly that
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You can learn hilarious, amazing things that are not at all what the cranky person OR the textbook author hoped you would learn
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all my examples are too spicy
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I would love to know what the motivating examples are for this thread, and hope you will blogify it!
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hearing people's take on the incompletely-digested philosophy 101 material they just got taught is valuable to do once in awhile, I've found both for hilarity and for the occasional genuine "wow, never occured to me to read it that way before. interesting!"
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Indeed. "Demand curves always slope downwards." "Do they really? Let's give that a quick Google to check. Oh!" https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/can-demand-curve-ever-upward-sloping-6408.html …
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YES. Most things I see treated as 2) are really, really complicated questions that no one has proper answers to like "how to be good" or "how to please everyone when people have competing interests"
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