Nothing is ever "just" something else.
It's a good joke/insult/mockery template (like the Rick and Morty classic, "that's just slavery with extra steps") but not a good starting point for analysis.
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Made this tweet as a stock quote-reply tbf.
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Please add examples of usage you see in the wild.
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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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Replying to @vgr
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?)

