Reposted to address: labels on clusters of belief such as "free will" and "determinism" tlb or pg has a pithy saying that I can't find now goes smth like "we

Reposted to address: labels on clusters of belief such as "free will" and "determinism" tlb or pg has a pithy saying that I can't find now goes smth like "we should avoid labels [on people] not because they are useless (they aren't) but they are hard to get right. Adding the cost of being wrong to that makes them not worth it" There's some connection to the "build skill or taste?" dilemma threaded earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469163 You can make proper use of labels-- that requires taste. To build skill, you try to find new labels that can go viral ;) E.g you combine them like Hobart :)