Seems like a special case of using a non-transparent communication medium to activate System 2 by delaying and/or muting a System 1 response. Similarly discussing an awkward subject feels less embarrassing in a foreign language… until you master it. Have you noticed how people tend to use clinical/scientific terms to avoid connotations when trying to stay “rational”?
Probably a good general rationality technique. Maybe the UN should stop real-time interpreting services and make everyone learn Latin, Esperanto or Lojban?
What other non-transparent communication media are out there? By “non-transparent” I mean one that requires a conscious effort to imbue or tease out a meaning.
What other non-transparent communication media are out there? By “non-transparent” I mean one that requires a conscious effort to imbue or tease out a meaning.
Communicating via blurry text or using a hard-to-read font is a well known one.
I don’t think that either Esperanto or Lojban is the perfect language. Expressing an idea in either of those languages usually takes 1.5 the amount of time as it does in English.
I think there room for a new constructed language that does things better.
I don’t think that either Esperanto or Lojban is the perfect language. Expressing an idea in either of those languages usually takes 1.5 the amount of time as it does in English.
Latin it is! I’ll bet some people won’t enjoy the return of a world-spanning political authority communicating in a language no normal person knows though.
Seems like a special case of using a non-transparent communication medium to activate System 2 by delaying and/or muting a System 1 response. Similarly discussing an awkward subject feels less embarrassing in a foreign language… until you master it. Have you noticed how people tend to use clinical/scientific terms to avoid connotations when trying to stay “rational”?
Probably a good general rationality technique. Maybe the UN should stop real-time interpreting services and make everyone learn Latin, Esperanto or Lojban?
What other non-transparent communication media are out there? By “non-transparent” I mean one that requires a conscious effort to imbue or tease out a meaning.
Communicating via blurry text or using a hard-to-read font is a well known one.
I don’t think that either Esperanto or Lojban is the perfect language. Expressing an idea in either of those languages usually takes 1.5 the amount of time as it does in English.
I think there room for a new constructed language that does things better.
In this case it would be a feature, not a bug.
If a unproductive language is what you want you could go for Toki Pona. It’s even easier to teach than esperanto.
The point would be the opposite: to make it hard but usable.
Latin it is! I’ll bet some people won’t enjoy the return of a world-spanning political authority communicating in a language no normal person knows though.
That’s their problem.
Although it sounds profound.