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I agree with your feeling that the comment we've replied to could use a bit more context... or something. But I felt like I got the point.

Looking at this thread, it mostly just lead me to think about how things can be super insightful for one person, and totally meaningless to the next.

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Alternatively, things that are not insightful can feel insightful to some people, because they triggered some different, tangentially related thoughts than what was being communicated — i.e., the reader substituted their own insight for the author's.

Or because the author has enough authority that they are granted a presumption of insightfulness by default, even (or perhaps especially) when the concrete insight that's allegedly being communicated remains unclear.

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