TheOverSeether
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TheOverSeether
1yr ago
(I notice this with Scott Alexander's writings pretty often, where I think 'I don't need all this extra stuff', but then see comments from people that didn't closely read the piece. They object in a way that was answered by the thing I thought was unnecessary).
Great point, but he actually has something worthwhile to say while the self-important bagpipes do not.
TheOverSeether
1yr ago
True to OP's point, your comment is unnecessarily long.
So why might Carl Sagan have chosen a parable, rather than a minimum-length sentence, to encode his observation? He compressed a heroic number of assumptions into simple language.
>encode his observation
>compressed a heroric number of assumptions
He's telling a story to get his point across.
That's it. That's all it took to make the same point, which is obvious. The midwittery here is incredible.
Not really. "Nigger" refers to a subset of black people. If you disagree, it's because you have no idea how people use that word in the real world.
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