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To clarify, I meant language like English or Spanish. This is a hard point to compress into a comment but - if there is a central authority that labels things d
by doctorhandshake 4y ago
To clarify, I meant language like English or Spanish. This is a hard point to compress into a comment but - if there is a central authority that labels things definitively (think DNS-> IP), we have a problem where the very first step in attaching an augment to the world requires you to use the language someone else has chosen for you to describe it. I framed this up in the ‘Manifesto’ post on the blog: https://noahnorman.substack.com/p/manifesto https://noahnorman.substack.com/p/manifesto
- superb-owl 4y agoObviously we should standardize on Esperanto!
- doctorhandshake 4y agoEven beyond the language (eg Esperanto) the words are expressed in, the words themselves are likely to be subject to some serious debate. It is entirely wrong, IMO, to believe that you can acquire consensus on what things are called even in ‘objective’ labels, to say nothing of the clearly subjective language we use to describe things.