The listener’s filter needs as an input the nature of the speaker’s filter, or information is irretrievably lost.
The speaker’s filter needs as an input the nature of the listener’s filter, or information is irretrievably lost.
Having two codependent filters like that has a lot of stable non-lossy outcomes. One easy one to describe is the one where both filters are empty.
Unless you can convince me of a specific pair of filters such that many more people that I want to talk to use those two filters than use empty filters (increasing the number of people with whom I can communicate losslessly) or that provide some benefit superior to empty filters, I’ll continue to use empty filters as much as possible, even if I have to aggressively enforce that choice on others.
Signalling higher status by applying ‘tact’ when I don’t want to be insulting is not a benefit to me. Giving others more deference than myself regarding what filters to apply is not a benefit to me. If I want to insult someone, I can do that as effectively by insulting them as a tact culture communicator could by speaking without tact.
The listener’s filter needs as an input the nature of the speaker’s filter, or information is irretrievably lost.
The speaker’s filter needs as an input the nature of the listener’s filter, or information is irretrievably lost.
Having two codependent filters like that has a lot of stable non-lossy outcomes. One easy one to describe is the one where both filters are empty.
Unless you can convince me of a specific pair of filters such that many more people that I want to talk to use those two filters than use empty filters (increasing the number of people with whom I can communicate losslessly) or that provide some benefit superior to empty filters, I’ll continue to use empty filters as much as possible, even if I have to aggressively enforce that choice on others.
Signalling higher status by applying ‘tact’ when I don’t want to be insulting is not a benefit to me. Giving others more deference than myself regarding what filters to apply is not a benefit to me. If I want to insult someone, I can do that as effectively by insulting them as a tact culture communicator could by speaking without tact.