Cold take: Darmok is stimulating to think about but otherwise fairly stupid. In the same way CSS is stupid.https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/ …
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A sufficiently advanced and automated society will end up reliant on declarative-allegorical communication designed to be maximally annoying
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We do it all the time without thinking about it
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Working on it! Made a board game for my girlfriend's birthday heavily inspired by the spirit of the episode. The next iteration will be even more explicit about constructing and using metaphors to play the game.
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Esperanto, when the walls fell.
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Is it so far off from every tweet thread or group chat that devolves into an exchange of memes?
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picard, his face in palm
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I’ve messed around with it with friends. It can be pretty hard to come up with examples that aren’t memes. I want to know two extremes: what do their physics textbooks look like? and how do they talk about banal shit like deciding on a restaurant?
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