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I've been reflecting a bit on my philosophy of learning stuff. How I like to think about things (and maybe how you like to think about things, if you like to read this newsletter). I make a lot of observations of the form "X is Y" which tend to get understood sometimes as being reductive, and missing important aspects of both concepts. Which is strange to me because I think it seems fairly clear that the intended reading of "X is Y" is "one way, of many, of conceiving of X is that it is an in...