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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I think the difference is not just that 2) are more basic than 1), but that 2) is a sign that it’s something core to an imaginary world
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It's tricky because there are two sides to this. Like, if someone is really going hard with Zeno's paradoxes, I could teach him infinitesimal calculus starting from the axioms of ZDC, but I'd just be reproducing the textbooks (albeit with the classic Rotem Eren improvements).
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Replying to @RotemEren @literalbanana
At a certain point, demanding evidence that already exists in widely available and acknowledged sources is a way to demagogue to idiots who are too stupid to understand those sources.
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yeah this would legitimately be interesting to study if you could find enough cases - how and when the tactic is used
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sometimes the answer can be summarized in one word (like “calculus”) but the imprecation to read a book doesn’t include it
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Replying to @literalbanana @RotemEren
that said I don’t know if including a one-word summary makes the tactic more or less annoying
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