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If, hypothetically, the majority of words communicated from one homo sapiens to any other homo sapiens (majority weighted by the number of homo sapiens who will
by hatthew 3y ago
If, hypothetically, the majority of words communicated from one homo sapiens to any other homo sapiens (majority weighted by the number of homo sapiens who will hear, read, or otherwise receive the word over the course of the word's existence) were designed to be precise and unambiguous to the extent that the mean number of homo sapiens who receive the word correctly interpret the exact meaning of the word intended by the entity that chose the word is greater than 99.99%, then I would estimate a greater than 90% probability that the cumulative unique information (in the information-theoretic sense) contained in communications correctly interpreted by the receiving homo sapiens on any given day would be less than the cumulative unique information that is currently being correctly interpreted today (January 30th 2024 in the Gregorian calendar), and furthermore the reduction in information thus communicated would have a negative effect on progress towards the majority of cumulative goals implicitly created by all living homo sapiens.
Or I could just say "I think most people interpreted the tweet correctly, and it would be annoying if it was overly precise"
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