I wonder how it would change society if our language didn't have any normative language in it ("People should do X"), and instead we were forced to rely on conditional predictions ("If people do X, I predict Y will happen")
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Or rather: if normies could be stopped from imposing beliefs without priors, society would be negotiated via incentives and rational arguments.
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This would totally stunt much of our social technology. Normative statements are not in general replaceable with an equivalent but "less spooky" descriptive one
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