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This is a good one. Academics do this all the time. Once such a dipshit listened to me talk about a complex battlespace model I’d spent 2 postdoctoral years building and went, “isn’t this just game theory?”
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Arrogant folks in the audience of a conference talk asking “Isn’t your entire paper just X theorem applied to a special case of Y lemma?” (well maybe, dipshit, but had anyone done that yet and explored the consequences?)
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"just" is a good indicator that you're about to hear someone dismiss something they shouldn't it's like things seem magical (illusion) --> partially understood/dismissed (poorly explained) --> well understood and awesome again
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