language

“Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions

"Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." –Jackie O.

Alara

The monkey, the tiger beetle and the language of innovation

Courtney Hohne blog.x.company

sari

Amhrán na Leabhar (Song of the Books) - LYRICS + Translation

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ssilence

“historically, the English had banned the Irish (Gaelic) language - books in Gaelic were confiscated. Now, Gaelic history and culture is largely oral, so this effectively meant banning everything about the culture. In an attempt to try preserve the language, they loaded this ship with a ton of Gaelic books and old manuscripts filled with all kinds of knowledge. Sort of as their perceived last hope at preserving the language, which is over 2000 years old, but the ship hit a rock not far from shore and sank in full view of the people. So this song is a lament of the loss of all that knowledge and, ultimately, the culture” - Bri

Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Stephen Wolfram writings.stephenwolfram.com

Yash Mimani aka ahafisher

Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system | Aeon Essays

Lane Greene aeon.co

Adrien

"economy of words"

phoebe

The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.

andrea

Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn’t exist.

alex