How would the improvements in machine translation help to share ideas even if languages don't homogenize?
The more sovereign city-states there are in the world, the more informative policy experiments we can run, to see what works best. The fewer languages there are in the world, the more easily we can share the results of those experiments, so best practices can spread.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1085782287742951429 …
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I was wondering about that. It'll certainly help. But not as much as a genuine common language such as English or Chinese.
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Exactly.
@primalpoly seems to assume that people are inherently monolingual. And isn't there something to the (modified) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that different languages generate different ways of thinking about the world? Useful if you want to encourage creative experimentation. - 3 more replies
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Hmm...perhaps! But look at the two areas where you have linguistic unity combined with political fragmentation: Latin America and the Middle East. Have we seen especially rapid institutional progress in those regions?
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Maybe common language intrinsically leads to political conglomeration unless dysfunction is present.
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Another reason the Founders were wise: they established the laboratory of the states model.
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I imagine that people would demand autonomy in city states precisely so they *wouldn't* be subject to social engineering experiments. I hope you mean that each strategy is left to develop, so it can either become a good example or a terrible lesson.
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People can speak more than one language though, and in many parts of the world this is still common or even the norm. So we don't need fewer languages, instead people can learn a global one. Like English.
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