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> We should question is more flexibility always a good thing? In general, i would say so. A great deal of wars and suffering would be avoided if people were sl
by southerntofu 5y ago
> We should question is more flexibility always a good thing?
In general, i would say so. A great deal of wars and suffering would be avoided if people were slightly more flexible and not so much into ethnocentric interpretations of the world.
> invent new ones every time we try to communicate something?
When explaining other concepts than cryptography, do you systematically borrow the same names? I guess not. Why would cryptography be any different?
- Ekaros 5y agoIn math variable names x, y, z are very common. Same goes for angles with greek alphabet. Maybe we should sometimes replace these with characters from other cultures? Maybe in programming we should start using things like umlauts as variables in short loops...
- southerntofu 5y ago> Maybe we should sometimes replace these with characters from other cultures? Isn't that precisely what you're advocating for with angles and the greek alphabet? I don't know about you, but i personally had to learn about greek letters in math classes, and that's something i could have done without, especially when there's other standard means of designating an angle.
- Ekaros 5y agoI was thinking picking something from let's say Korean, Japanese or Chinese. After all I have understood we shouldn't be too western.