intelligence (the ability to make [complex] models), smartness (the ability to accomplish your goals), and wisdom (the ability / intuition to choose the right goals). (you can likely think of many people who distinctly have one / a combo of these and not the others)
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i think this problem of effective communication is difficult today because we have 1) no real understanding of the decoding process among humans (are representations uniform / congruent? i suspect no, given people describe things like math in different ways
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(kinesthetically, symbolically, visually, etc). 2) the study of the encoding process (writing / literature, mostly) has not really been studied formally (mostly aesthetically) Shannon never got that far and no one took the torch.
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3) we are just starting to develop the mediums with information fidelity / resolution in mind (reference material, search engines, i.e. increasingly sophisticated / composable query protocols)
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our only hope in the short run is that some intelligent, smart, wise unicorn person who has studied cognitive science, philosophy of mind, & artificial intelligence comes along and develops some kind of effective information learning protocol, along with the suitable families
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of encoders / decoders that work for a wide distribution of our particular populations
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abstractly this is exactly the role of the teacher, to model pupils and try to encode structures of information in your mind in a way that you suspect they will be able to decode it without a ton of loss
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I think most don’t appreciate the nuances of that task when they transform thoughts to written form. Which is essentially my claim above.
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right. it is useful to see writing as a *techological* challenge, which may be happening more and more (most obviously with the new task of software systems documentation)
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