{"id":331,"date":"2012-09-11T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-09-09T00:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:30:55","slug":"cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cached Reply Upon Being Told That I'm an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not specific enough.<\/p>\n<p>\"What?\"<\/p>\n<p>You claim that I'm an idiot. Well, sure; I already knew that. If you could point to some specific way in which my thinking is confused and explain how I might do better, then I would be quite grateful. But to just say that I'm stupid, without elaborating, doesn't seem helpful.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Words are useful insofar as they summarize information about the world. If everyone involved already has a detailed predictive model of someone's various cognitive abilities, then it doesn't matter whether you describe them as an \"idiot\" or a \"genius\". As compared to what?)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not specific enough. \"What?\" You claim that I'm an idiot. Well, sure; I already knew that. If you could point to some specific way in which my thinking is confused and explain how I might do better, then I would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}