On what you can’t say. (A thread!)
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Replying to @SimonDeDeo
I think I disagree that “what you can’t say” is a *problem* for everyone, at least in that form. I more often struggle with the problem of influence and imitation. What you don’t see in your social contexts, you find yourself not thinking. And I worry about that.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @SimonDeDeo
The boundaries of what counts as “a thing”, a nameable thing, enough to consciously notice it. Perceptions often don’t rise to the level of being “things” for me if they don’t seem socially legitimate enough, though I’ve put some effort into countering that.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @SimonDeDeo
But the case of “you know a thing, consciously, but you can’t say it” — it seems like sometimes an inconvenience but not a tragedy. How bad it is depends on the situation, right? Sometimes you get killed, sometimes you lose friends and funding, sometimes you get lonely...
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Epistemic tragedy. Nobody dies. But if you can’t say it to others, you can’t think about it with them. So it stays there, at a lower stage of development.
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Yeah, I agree that happens.
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