A language encodes many conceptual handles These may change over time And perhaps their is a practical limit to how many it may contain at once
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7. New conceptual handles may be a refinement or condensation of older versions. This may be a strict efficiency gain, or may represent lossy compression
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8. Technical and academic disciplines are rotten with arcane handles ("jargon"). Many of these reduce to math which is maximally efficient (I think)
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9. The creation or discovery of new handles represents in many cases real technological advances over old handles
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10. We are barely into the industrial age, even less so into the information age--shit, even language is relatively new all things considered Much of the world that remains opaque to us today may be clarified by advances in language technology (but much will be lost)
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11. It is a divine act to forge new handles from the ether and to curate the existing stock
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good expansions/refinementshttps://twitter.com/YSvechinsky/status/1220442247201787910?s=19 …
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It's an interesting idea, but I don't think this is an efficient way of finding new conceptual handles. I think reading introductory handbooks from various disciplines is more efficient. Maybe also browsing old encyclopedias. Browsing wikipedia.
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On the other hand maybe learning one foreign language is very valuable here, as it shows that language is not something "absolute", that it is not the basic level of reality. Beyond one foreign language you are in the realm of diminishing returns (re getting conceptual handles)
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