language
From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.
As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolframwritings.stephenwolfram.com
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in
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