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Interesting parallel with stories out there where authors think teachers get their writings “wrong”.

Unintended metaphor and application are things.

Smacks of a cognitive bias known as functional fixedness: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness

A screwdriver can also be a pry bar :-)

Imo this is why looser IP laws are important. Humanity needs to be able to rethink and find new application of its epistemological ideas to find new ideas of interest.

Too often we’re held to thinking about IP only the way the author intended. It’s almost pushing into thought policing.