Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Ideas are most valuable when shared (AND ACCEPTED) - Twitter bad example, because of the second part
Mentors and friends have always warned me that employers will never care about you.
But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?
But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?
Alicia Bonner • Why do you work?
I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78
Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.
Most anxieties about the future are really about the present.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
This is at the core of my beliefs regarding the fear of AGI. It’s a reflected fear of current economic trends
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. 1
Long Questions/Short Answers
It’s all about asking the right questions
Believing in magic can be an irresponsible thing to do if it leads you to disengage from your material responsibilities– but if you’re a responsible person trying to get meaningful work done, and there’s a real possibility that something wonderful could happen and make everything tremendously better, it’s worth making a little space for, isn’t it?
if i'm honest with myself
Be magical
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Does language influence our thoughts? How can we minimize (or maximize) that influence?
“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future
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