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Nice to see a rebuttal to the other article. "The [complicated topic] is just like [fashionable technology]" trope is beyond tired.
by nategri 9y ago
Nice to see a rebuttal to the other article.
"The [complicated topic] is just like [fashionable technology]" trope is beyond tired.
- GuiA 9y agoIt certainly isn’t a rebuttal. Did you read the article you are referring to? [0] It opens with ”If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail”, acknowledging the limitations of the vision it builds. And the top upvoted comment on HN makes sure to add on another layer: “Its analogies are pretty solid, even if they are just analogies. It's a well-described snapshot of the early phase of education where this helps build a grand intuition and relations between disciplines. Just be careful to remember that they're just analogies, and in general can't be relied on to actually discover, invent, design or conclude.“ Metaphors and analogies is one of the ways how humans understand the world. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, as long as the limitations (“can't be relied on to actually discover, invent, design or conclude”) of that approach are kept in mind. The overt cynicism of your comment misses the entire point. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233644