thinking about how signaling, when it's working, is about showing you have such abundant resources you can waste them on signaling; realized that for a man *not* to spend time announcing to the world how disgusted he is by other men who are sex pests is now a form of signaling
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keeping quiet signals that you have sufficiently few skeletons in your closet that you can afford not to devote resources to building an image of yourself as Good Ally Guy Who Would Never against the day the skeletons come out
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wait what? how many levels you on? its 1 too many whatever it is.
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imagine the entire possibility-space of statements I might have uttered and didn't. the one that is most semantically relevant to NOT say is the one I definitely intentionally didn't say.
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why do they call it "binary" when there's only one value since the absence of an electrical charge can't possibly be a signal
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because it's really ternary logic and this is the first gate in mumon's damn labyrinthpic.twitter.com/i16cGG5Xqx
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Pirsig was playing around with an overextended metaphor, and was criticized for that a lot. My position is that metaphors are always overextended which is why they mean anything in the first place.
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