Those feel like important surface-level points, though I’d phrase the second one a bit differently. But the underlying models used to generate those claims are more of what I wanted to get across. Here are a couple pointers to the kinds of things I think are core content I was trying to work through an example of:
A clearer idea of how the different kinds of simulacrum relate to each other, and how some bring others into existence.
The interaction between speech’s denotative meaning, direct effects as an act, and indirect effects as a way of negotiating norms. (E.g. The way we argue for a point isn’t just about whether a claim is true or false, but also about how reasoning works. Expressing anger that someone’s violated a norm isn’t just a statement about the act, but about the norm, and about the knowability of the relation between the two.)
There are kinds of motivated distortions of thinking that are bad, not because there is or might be a direct victim of harm, but because they change what we’re doing when we’re talking, in a way that makes some kinds of important coordination much harder.
Those feel like important surface-level points, though I’d phrase the second one a bit differently. But the underlying models used to generate those claims are more of what I wanted to get across. Here are a couple pointers to the kinds of things I think are core content I was trying to work through an example of:
A clearer idea of how the different kinds of simulacrum relate to each other, and how some bring others into existence.
The interaction between speech’s denotative meaning, direct effects as an act, and indirect effects as a way of negotiating norms. (E.g. The way we argue for a point isn’t just about whether a claim is true or false, but also about how reasoning works. Expressing anger that someone’s violated a norm isn’t just a statement about the act, but about the norm, and about the knowability of the relation between the two.)
There are kinds of motivated distortions of thinking that are bad, not because there is or might be a direct victim of harm, but because they change what we’re doing when we’re talking, in a way that makes some kinds of important coordination much harder.
Nod. I think I had (mostly) successfully heard those points, although not so cleanly that I could have described them easily.
Communicating underlying models is hard, and I appreciate the techniques employed here to aim at getting that across.