"The Guardian vs. Induction" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/03/the-guardian-vs-induction/ … (Spoiler: induction always wins.)
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Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch As I commented there, many plants are grewn, and bananas are yellack. And the Guardian is always wrong and stupid.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch I have no idea what you mean by this.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@St_Rev Which makes them fundamentally unlike what we typically think of as colors.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev it's a flaw in our language that words assume their own steady states4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev And here I was thinking that was a feature.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev it's another dimension to be described that goes undescribed if you always specify it as 01 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@GrumplessGrinch @St_Rev even just a shorthand binary notation next to words would add a lot of information
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@GrumplessGrinch Korzybski used subscripts but it didn't catch on. Note that 'grue' really should be 'grue_t'.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch words tend to be snapshots anyway - implication of motion or stillness (& patterns thereof) would add information1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 10 more replies
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