#like. i _love_ framing questions or answers such that confusions some kinds are hard or impossible to express. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

notarealwelder · 1 month ago

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Take: in some domains, adopting a language that makes it impossible to express some things is good, because nobody actually wanted to express the things: they were mostly confusions caused by unclear thinking / lack of conceptual vocabulary.

In other domains, it's war, because others do want to express things, and depriving them of vocabulary to do that is an effective combat tactic.

Ofc arguing that the domain is of the first kind is also an effective second-kind tactic.

#posts #boy do i not like this part of the nature of intelligence/communication #like. i _love_ framing questions or answers such that confusions some kinds are hard or impossible to express.#and now you tell me this beautiful approach to deconfusion and mutual understanding is surface-indistinguishable from #bad-faith non-truth-seeking rhetorical warfare?#and that other people reasonably dislike the indistinguishable average and will respond to first-kind like to the second-kind?#and going meta won't help because if it did help it would be exploitable?

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