[makerdiety]

Invoking excessive formality and discussions of minute technical details leads to a cathedral of knowledge built on autistic pedantry. The chosen rabbit hole to get lost in needs to be the correct one. And human science is riddled with the paths that have naive or childish fundamentals.

[kragen]

> a cathedral of knowledge built on autistic pedantry

this is certainly true, but more often we use its short name, 'math'. it turns out to be far more effective than so-called common sense

[mistermann]

This comment makes me want to both upvote and downvote with extreme enthusiasm/fury!

The sign of a truly good conversation?