Re language as an example: parties involved in communication using language have comparable intelligence (and even there I would say someone just a bit smarter can cheat their way around you using language).
Mhh yeah so I agree these examples of ways in which language “fails”. But I think they don’t bother me too much? I put them in the same category as “two agents with good faith sometimes miscommunicate—and still, language overall is pragmatically”, or “works good enough”. In other words, even though there is potential for exploitation, that potential is in fact meaningfully constraint. More importantly, I would argue that the constraint comes (in large parts) from the way the language has been (co-)constructed.
Mhh yeah so I agree these examples of ways in which language “fails”. But I think they don’t bother me too much?
I put them in the same category as “two agents with good faith sometimes miscommunicate—and still, language overall is pragmatically”, or “works good enough”. In other words, even though there is potential for exploitation, that potential is in fact meaningfully constraint. More importantly, I would argue that the constraint comes (in large parts) from the way the language has been (co-)constructed.