Maybe there exists the following distinction. Modern language, as it's actually spoken most of the time, is like a higher level programming language. The struct

Maybe there exists the following distinction. Modern language, as it's actually spoken most of the time, is like a higher level programming language. The structure of our brain, combined with our senses and the uber-simple way that we're taught as infants, is like lower level OS programming (parent points to hot food - look Johnny, it's hot! hot! - makes Johnny touch the food - food hot! - blows on the food to make it colder). Some words like good/bad, hot/cold, and important/unimportant are underrepresented in everyday speech compared to the prevalence of the underlying concepts. That's why I'd categorize them as lower level word-concepts. This distinction, about variable levels of abstraction, might be important for true AI. Think about how many years it takes for humans to develop highly abstract cognition. That whole time our operating system is being coded. Maybe we need to approach AI in the same way. It's not just AI that can benefit from better lower-level understanding. Seeing language in the above way, we can re-frame Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy and its normative implications for human communication. Our "programming" (communication) is on average too higher level. Excessively abstract instructions make it harder to decode and process in a precise and efficient manner.