some implications
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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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Maybe! Early-mid 20C was really bad iirc
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