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how language shapes reality
Natalie Audelo and • 8 cards
This strategy of destabilising language and its meaning enables the well-versed to befuddle the layman with jargon, thereby giving vacuous theories the impression of substance.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that talks about how what we think informs how we speak (and we all get that part) and also how the way we speak starts to change how we think. Someone exposed to racist language, who starts taking on some of those linguistic tendencies, will eventually code themselves into overtly racist actions.
Dr Faith G Harper • Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs
There is a depth of wisdom in language’s flexibility, in the soma of its poetry.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
This new language would increase the power of the human mind, far more so than microscopes or telescopes amplify sight. Without it, we are like merchants, he wrote—in debt to each other vaguely for various items mentioned in passing, but never willing to strike an exact balance of meaning.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
THE MIND IS A BRITTLE OBJECT
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
As it happens, even identifying the proper gender “dimension” is hard.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Second Law of Cognition: Action molds perception.