Since we’re trying to be lesswrong here, I’ll risk seeming petty by pointing out that “begging the question” is a logical fallacy, not a synonym for “raising the question”. Just sayin...
Although technically you could say that the whole argument begs the question, depending on how you interpret the logic. Because it basically follows the form: “Learning a skill is trivial because you can break a skill down into trivial subskills.”
Since we’re trying to be lesswrong here, I’ll risk seeming petty by pointing out that “begging the question” is a logical fallacy, not a synonym for “raising the question”. Just sayin...
Although technically you could say that the whole argument begs the question, depending on how you interpret the logic. Because it basically follows the form: “Learning a skill is trivial because you can break a skill down into trivial subskills.”