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Most of the time so, this approach leads to very deep discoveries of the kind other people learned in the first days of a 101 lesson studying said subject, at university or during some formal training of trade or craft.
Yes. But society on net benefits from it.
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you can't argue that a Ford F150 is objectively better Perhaps if you limit yourself to a hidebound traditionalist view of the form but this topic has been explored by the Moving Picture Essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMDcIApBtL8
This is one of the weirdest insults I have heard in a long time.
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What a strange essay! To try to find out what makes a good (sorry "THE BEST") essay without any reference to any of the great essays that have actually been written? It feels a bit like the head of a university's English department setting out to discover "the best computer program" but without talking to or refering to the work of any of the thousands of people who've made it their life to study and practice the cra…
> For example, Darwin first described the idea of natural selection in an essay written in 1844. [1] Talk about an important topic you could tell people something surprising about. If that's the test of a great essay, this was surely the best one written in 1844. I think he's speaking broadly about what counts as an essay, and does have at least one example in there to illustrate his point. He's also an esteemed essa…
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There isn’t a need to read anything beyond introductory materials to acquire depth, if your competent enough. In fact that’s what I would consider the critical dividing line between a regular genius and a bonafide super-genius. Someone who almost supernaturally acquires expertise/intuition/depth/etc. with very little visible effort.
Even introductory materials cover the difference between "your" and "you're" rather thoroughly.
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I’d assert that, rather than being fictional, it’s just exceedingly rare. While Feynman, Einstein, von Neumann, et. al. are indisputably geniuses, they all got relevant graduate degrees before doing their best work. The self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, however, was invited to Cambridge University on the merits of notebooks he developed in isolation after reading a few mathematical texts… https://…
Ramanujan is particularly interesting because he repeatedly claimed that divinity gave him his results. I'm an atheist but when someone like him tells me that god gave him all of his equations - I'm not going to respond with "well ackshully". I'm going to ask them how we can make it easier for them to listen to god.
Assuming you don’t have a direct line to divinity yourself, you would need to have that profound genius in the first place to evaluate…
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Much of the restricted depth of this nature is a consequence of deliberate obfuscation or neglect by the people who are involved in the doing, such as trade secrets, or simply choosing not to write about or share the actual things that impact their craft. You can easily accumulate depth of knowledge from reading in areas that are well documented.
This x1000! I'm so tired of (mostly boomers) talking about learning how to work on cars like it's easy. Sorry guys, but the companies who make those DIY repair manuals that you guys keep talking about using to learn wrenching don't seem to make stuff for any modern vehicles. Don't believe me? Go check out how pathetic their selection is right now: https://haynes.com/en-us/ It is nigh impossible for a non-car person t…
The boomer way wasn't that easy, but it actually finally IS easy to learn to work on cars.
There's also this, I can recommend it: https://www.howacarworks.com/
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This x1000! I'm so tired of (mostly boomers) talking about learning how to work on cars like it's easy. Sorry guys, but the companies who make those DIY repair manuals that you guys keep talking about using to learn wrenching don't seem to make stuff for any modern vehicles. Don't believe me? Go check out how pathetic their selection is right now: https://haynes.com/en-us/ It is nigh impossible for a non-car person t…
Luckily, "those who do" now have youtube channels with videos for almost any car job you need to do, with the specific make and model. The boomer way wasn't that easy, but it actually finally IS easy to learn to work on cars. There's also this, I can recommend it: https://www.howacarworks.com/
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Yes. But society on net benefits from it.
From people studying a subject through formal training? I agree, more people should do that!
Also what you said, but they aren't mutually exclusive.