Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
by roceasta on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:22PM
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Yes, it's complicated. Yet I don't think I committed an equivocation. As I said, what makes the difference is compulsion/coercion, which causes us to interpret scariness in one context as bad (e.g. falling off a ladder), and scariness in another as being good and part of the fun (e.g. skydiving).
> Plenty of video games are known to be scary and hard
Those statements seem related because of the ambiguous definition of "scary". In relation to math, "scary" causes anxiety, whereas in relation to video games, "scary" causes excitement.
As soon as you grasp the different meanings, you can clearly see that even though both statements are about the same word they are still orthogonal.