1. The set of what is possible for people to coordinate is partly limited by the set of conceptual handles they share in common (sometimes handle asymmetry may actually be best?)
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2. The set of shared handles is changing over time and these changes are frequently adaptive for individuals if not for society in some aggregated sense (Handle distribution --> changes over time a la evolutionary game theory)
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3. There are likely things that were possible for our Anglophone forebears but not for us, and vice versa
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4. Conceptual handles may be transliterated but it may be faster to just learn another language
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5. Learning another language or reading old books is probably a good way to find novel conceptual handles serendipitously
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6. Memes are conceptual handles
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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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eigenrobot Retweeted Yoni
good expansions/refinementshttps://twitter.com/YSvechinsky/status/1220442247201787910?s=19 …
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