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Sep 29, 2025
10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
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Aug 30, 2025
Ludwig von Mises
Jul 04, 2025
10-2g2c1 Symbols are universal. Being arbitrary and contingent means it can represent anything, and do everything.
Jun 09, 2025
9-1b2 Inevitable meme variation is another reason why it's impossible to predict how people will use your work and ideas
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Oct 19, 2024
10-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achieve
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)
Jul 18, 2024
1-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2d1c Evolution achieved that jump to universality with the DNA genetic code
Jul 18, 2024
10-2f3a Learning human languages consists of constantly conjecturing-guessing the meaning of the words being used
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Jul 18, 2024
10-2g1f2b The brain and symbols evolved reflexively to enhance communication to deal with cultural and sexual selectional pressures.
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2c2 Human minds are capable of knowing what ideas mean
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)
Jul 18, 2024
10-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structures
Jul 18, 2024
3-1d4c Humans can correct its own errors because we use symbols
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Jul 18, 2024
9-1b2b Technology, knowledge, and people constitute symbols (including relations, because relations are also symbols)
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Jul 18, 2024
9-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)
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