Can you really miss the obvious?
As the saying goes "one mised the obvious" it makes me wonder if what was missed was really obvious for it to have been missed. This brings to mind the idea of hiding in plain sight, a concsious attempt at avoding detection by not avoiding detection.
In short. If you missed it, was it obvious?
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If we try to solve a logical puzzle of some kind, we might use half an hour before we get the answer. But as soon as we arrive at the answer, the answer really does look obvious. I don't think that really makes the answer quite obvious though. Sure, we can see that the answer is obviously true, but that doesn't mean that it was easy to derive the answer. So there's a distinction between verifying a result and finding a result. This is essentially the P versus NP problem. If P = NP then it's just as easy (in some sense) to verify an answer as it is to solve the problem. Most mathematicians, however, agree that P isn't equal to NP. This means that just because we can easily verify the answer to the logic puzzle, doesn't mean that finding the answer is easy. If what we mean by obvious is something that is easy to verify, then I think we can miss the obvious. Side: yes
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