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Seems you're building on top of another HN thread from today:

"Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?"

https//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32257887

Unfortunately real life is more complex than Calculus I. The analogy is simultaneously valid and useless.



GP used 'higher-order' to mean higher in some ontology of abstraction, similar to 'meta', à la 'higher-order function'. In this case, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-ethics

Speaking of today's submissions, Wikipedia might need some discussion of its own about what to do with these articles all about pretty much the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadiscourse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-communication

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