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> My magic wand would be waving it at those humans to force them to suddenly and powerfully experience their version of an overview effect in their lives [...]

• philipov 26d ago
  "It was a big step up on my career and put me in a better position to provide for my family, which is my most important moral duty" is what every one of them will say.
• tikimcfee 26d ago
  Thanks for sharing this. I'll be completely honest about my oddities and eccentricities that this has brought me to a place of trying to understand linguistics in a way I am simply not learned enough to do. I have a barely substantiated hypothesis that a lot of what fails us as humans in communication is language, intent, and the inability to visualize the same thing with the same words. I have things I've tried to build around this, and the science has been around for many decades and beyond, but I have to try something. I can lie to myself in this and say that at least I'm trying to help people understand each other. But linguistics is hard and my science is not strong and I am one person trying to convince my local peer groups my ideas about language isn't just goofy and worth a pat on the head. That's less a rant and more a point that I think we're on the same page in some ways: being able to dissect someone's thoughts and morals starts with knowing what tools to do it with, and the only tools I'm really good with are software and language. So, that's what I'm trying to do.