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"it's more considerate to write simply. When you write in a fancy way to impress people" "When I write a sentence that seems too complicated, or that uses unne
by ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
"it's more considerate to write simply. When you write in a fancy way to impress people"
"When I write a sentence that seems too complicated, or that uses unnecessarily intellectual words, it doesn't seem fancy to me. It seems clumsy."
So apparently the dimensions are writing simply ⮂ writing fancy, which actually gets reduced to writing simply ⮂ writing clumsy. This implies that any writing which is not clumsy is written simply, therefore the best samples of simply writing is something akin to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Heidegger's Being and Time, or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, for they are the pinnacle of non-clumsy word strings, no sign in those texts is extraneous, however they also are the pinnacle of extremely dense ideas, requiring multiple library shelves to be understood. Something does not follow.
Although, granted, if Kant indeed gave us a specification for artificial intelligence [1] in the form of a post-medieval, transitory Latin to German compendium, a vade mecum if you will, 150+ years prior to the invention of the Turing machine, well, I suppose he couldn't write simply-er than he did.
[1] https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~re14/Evans-R-2020-PhD-Thesis.pdf https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~re14/Evans-R-2020-PhD-Thesis.pdf
- amadeuspagel 4y agoWittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is simple, easy to read, doesn't have any references except in the introduction and epigraph and was also written by a rich guy.