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My stove has many backburners. On one of those backburners is an idea for a new restricted grammar that would force constructive debate. Free form natural lan
by breck 5y ago
My stove has many backburners.
On one of those backburners is an idea for a new restricted grammar that would force constructive debate.
Free form natural language text would be an error and not submittable. In other words, an automod programmed via a grammar.
You could only post things that would flush out the complexity and numeric tree of the issue at hand. So perhaps links, numbers, tables, simulations, et cetera. Perhaps the strictness of the grammar could increase with some indicator of the flaminess of the debate.
I think this could be a fun project. I have not taken a stab at it yet and would be interested in any prior art.
https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/4 https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/4
- bwestergard 5y agoThere is quite a lot of prior art. A good place to start would be by looking into the "Vienna Circle" of philosophers.
- HPsquared 5y agoOne could restrict unparliamentary language: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language
- breck 5y agoOoh thank you. "Parliament" is also a good name for a new computer language.
- loceng 5y agoSeems like gatekeeping and suppression has successfully made its way into our government discourse - preventing calling out people for lying being frowned upon is bullshit.
- pc86 5y agoIt didn't "make its way" anywhere, civility (insofar as parliamentary language, anyway) has been there since the very beginning.
- AndrewDucker 5y agoWhich merely makes it possible to lie in a civil manner, while not being able to point out the lie.
- xtiansimon 5y ago(“Who’s on first. What’s on second. I don’t know is on third.” + Liars Paradox) Third base!
- 10000truths 5y agoForcing people to use the term “terminological inexactitude” in lieu of “bullshit” just results in the term being used as a new synonym for “bullshit”. Don’t underestimate people’s creativity in evolving their language around whatever restrictions you place, e.g. people bypassing censors by using $ instead of s, or spamming the crouch button on a player’s corpse in an FPS game without saying a word, or spamming “What a save” as an insult in Rocket League, etc.