You don't think creating a climate where everyone must pay lip service to X translates to real power gains for X?
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It's the mode that matters. If you must pay tribute or work for X, X has power. Language power, not so much.
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. Why do you need language power for that? Calling out hypocrisy is always an ongoing human activity
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Stephenson argues that in Diamond Age but it is not really true. Language policing constrains rather than specifies
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Not really. Constraining to a subcritical space where arms race of policing/dogwhistling makes society non-functional
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The point is, nuclear enforcement against slip-ups does not scale. They're already seeing their limits (Tim Hunt eg)
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Preference falsification is not the same thing as exercised power or complete control.
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