Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could use words that actually mean what we want them to mean?
In OP, “technology”, is used for distracting things—I’m sure the grandma would not object to grandpa’s hearing aid, but she would object to a newspaper (if anybody still read those).
In your quote, “selfish”, means a lack of empathy (I’m not helping you because I don’t care how you feel), or foresight (I’m not giving you a gift, because I don’t see how that would affect our future relationship).
Also, “natural”, probably means “something that was common 10 thousand years ago”.
On one hand, sure, we have to make use of the words what we have. But on the other hand, it’s not like we’re running out of sounds to use. And you don’t even need new words for some of these.
[Moderator note:] I’ve recently found that your comments pretty reliably ended up in frustrating conversations for both parties (multiple authors and commenters have sent us PMs complaining about their interactions with you), were often downvoted, and often just felt like they were missing the point of the original article.
You are clearly putting a lot of time into commenting on LW, and I think that’s good, but I think right now it would be a lot better if you would comment less often, and try to increase the average quality of the comments you write. I think right now you are taking up a lot of bandwidth on the site, disproportionate to the quality of your contributions.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could use words that actually mean what we want them to mean?
In OP, “technology”, is used for distracting things—I’m sure the grandma would not object to grandpa’s hearing aid, but she would object to a newspaper (if anybody still read those).
In your quote, “selfish”, means a lack of empathy (I’m not helping you because I don’t care how you feel), or foresight (I’m not giving you a gift, because I don’t see how that would affect our future relationship).
Also, “natural”, probably means “something that was common 10 thousand years ago”.
On one hand, sure, we have to make use of the words what we have. But on the other hand, it’s not like we’re running out of sounds to use. And you don’t even need new words for some of these.
[Moderator note:] I’ve recently found that your comments pretty reliably ended up in frustrating conversations for both parties (multiple authors and commenters have sent us PMs complaining about their interactions with you), were often downvoted, and often just felt like they were missing the point of the original article.
You are clearly putting a lot of time into commenting on LW, and I think that’s good, but I think right now it would be a lot better if you would comment less often, and try to increase the average quality of the comments you write. I think right now you are taking up a lot of bandwidth on the site, disproportionate to the quality of your contributions.