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Smugness level 110. It is a good question. Get over yourself please.
by delbronski 10mo ago
Smugness level 110. It is a good question. Get over yourself please.
- hecanjog 10mo agoFair enough, but I disagree that it's a good question. "Explain it to me like I'm 5" (not even written out in words, just the abbreviation we all know) is not a curious place to come from, it is a desire for the quickest path to the end/payoff.
- Loughla 10mo agoEli5 is a common way of asking for clarification. That's all.
- hecanjog 10mo agoIt's common, I know what it means. It communicated its intent properly, I think. It's surprising to me that a venture capital finance site would need to clarify the difference between value and wealth, and I would be interested in hearing questions about this, but "ELI5" doesn't even meet the basic criteria for being a question. It asks no questions.
- zdragnar 10mo agoNot to mention one could easily search Google for "wealth versus value" and get tons of explanations in a few seconds. People just like having things handed to them I guess.
- busyant 10mo agoI think you're taking the comment too literally. I took it to mean something like, "I won't understand an abstruse Ph.D.-level explanation of what happened. I need an explanation geared toward the layperson." In fact, I think that's closer to the essence of ELI5--as opposed to literally explaining something at the 5 year old level. I suppose you can quibble about using the initialism, ELI, but only if you're advocating for people who might be unfamiliar with its use. Otherwise, I don't understand your complaint.
- hecanjog 10mo agoI don't think that I am. I don't think that they want to be treated like they're 5, but I do think they don't want to put thought into it. We're training ourselves to offload critical thinking and I was surprised to see it driving the conversation here.
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