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Ha! Well, I'm sure you understood what I meant, and your assumptions about me can't be clearer. It's just tiring that people assume so much. It derails conversa

by chm 11y ago

Ha! Well, I'm sure you understood what I meant, and your assumptions about me can't be clearer. It's just tiring that people assume so much. It derails conversations.

simoncion 11y ago
> ...your assumptions about me can't be clearer. I see you saying this a bunch in your replies to this thread. It might be time for you to step away from the thread for a few hours, then go back and level-headedly re-read it, starting with wtallis's post and working your way through each sub-thread before making any more replies. You might see other people's replies in an entirely new context.
m_mueller 11y ago
Please try to look in the mirror before accusing other people to derail the conversation through false assumptions. Just a few examples: "If Feynman didn't know of a better analogy, why didn't he just say so?" --> This is pretty much exactly what he was saying. "I assume you're talking about the interviewer and not me." --> Why would you assume that? You are the one using words such as arrogant, patronizing and jerk without actually explaining what it is you find offensive. "I'm of the opinion that Feynman didn't teach him a lesson with his speech and analogies." There's a lot to learn from this particular monologue. The most important lesson here is that human understanding about the laws of nature is hard work and cannot be boiled down to nice 1min snippets. That the interviewer or the viewer didn't learn anything from this, is again your assumption. Stating that this is your opinion also doesn't make sense - why have an opinion about the impression other people get from something? It's perfectly valid to say that you didn't take away anything from it or that Feynman's speech doesn't fit your taste or even that it is, in your opinion, of low quality, but doing a statement that could be statistically measured and hiding behind an 'opinion' in order to not do the actual work, is just lazy.

by chm 11y ago

Ha! Well, I'm sure you understood what I meant, and your assumptions about me can't be clearer. It's just tiring that people assume so much. It derails conversations.

simoncion 11y ago

> ...your assumptions about me can't be clearer. I see you saying this a bunch in your replies to this thread. It might be time for you to step away from the thread for a few hours, then go back and level-headedly re-read it, starting with wtallis's post and working your way through each sub-thread before making any more replies. You might see other people's replies in an entirely new context.

m_mueller 11y ago

Please try to look in the mirror before accusing other people to derail the conversation through false assumptions. Just a few examples: "If Feynman didn't know of a better analogy, why didn't he just say so?" --> This is pretty much exactly what he was saying. "I assume you're talking about the interviewer and not me." --> Why would you assume that? You are the one using words such as arrogant, patronizing and jerk without actually explaining what it is you find offensive. "I'm of the opinion that Feynman didn't teach him a lesson with his speech and analogies." There's a lot to learn from this particular monologue. The most important lesson here is that human understanding about the laws of nature is hard work and cannot be boiled down to nice 1min snippets. That the interviewer or the viewer didn't learn anything from this, is again your assumption. Stating that this is your opinion also doesn't make sense - why have an opinion about the impression other people get from something? It's perfectly valid to say that you didn't take away anything from it or that Feynman's speech doesn't fit your taste or even that it is, in your opinion, of low quality, but doing a statement that could be statistically measured and hiding behind an 'opinion' in order to not do the actual work, is just lazy.