Ordinary Banana

1) things people just explain 2) things that make people mad and haughty when asked to explain, e.g. “read a 1st year textbook”

Slightly tangential but I think everything like this is a case of the brain compressing things over time to useful kernels. They feel very true but end up impossible to easily explain.

#2 I always find amazing I guess the anger comes from cog dissonance: they know they know it ... and then they can't actually explain it. e.g. gun banner: we need to ban all XYZ me: what is an XYZ? gb: it's QRS me: no, it's not QRS = ABC. What is XYZ? gb: IT'S OBVIOUS !!!

Right. The Qualia of “obviousness” is very often a lie, or at best a lie-to-children.

Categories are hard. Two stories: (1) I remember having a conversation w my dad when I was < 10 about "how many houses are there in the US?". He shot back "what's your definition of a house? It's actually really hard! Apartment? Mobile home? House w 1 broken window? W 20?

One quickly realizes that there is no absolute definition, and things fuzz out at the edges. So too with banning guns, or porn, or unhealthy food. There are no crisp edges! story 2: >>>

basic bitch red tribe members love to say "The US Constitution is 4 pages; the USG regulations for brownies are 42 pages". Well, if the USG is going to buy brownies (for the troops, etc.) then it HAS to be 42 pages! Because 1 paragraph that says "you know, brownies!" >>>