Our model of rationalists does have to account for them being normal-ish humans who speak the language in common use around them. “Kill” is in common usage for disabling something, temporarily or permanently, without specifying mechanism; e.g. one can kill the lights or the music or wasteful spending or careless use of lanuguage on internet forums. Granted, it’d be quite prudent to avoid such use in Biology contexts. Given this is a rationality forum, what do you think is reasonable likelyhood for misunderstanding caused by sloppy use of language vs major oversights in subject matter research like you’re suggesting above? I’d be very surprised if it was less than 10:1. How much does that differ from your estimate elsewhere?
[Genuinely interested in peoples’ thought process during an exchange like above from a “how do we manage to talk past eachother even in a good faith rational discourse?” angle]
Our model of rationalists does have to account for them being normal-ish humans who speak the language in common use around them. “Kill” is in common usage for disabling something, temporarily or permanently, without specifying mechanism; e.g. one can kill the lights or the music or wasteful spending or careless use of lanuguage on internet forums. Granted, it’d be quite prudent to avoid such use in Biology contexts. Given this is a rationality forum, what do you think is reasonable likelyhood for misunderstanding caused by sloppy use of language vs major oversights in subject matter research like you’re suggesting above? I’d be very surprised if it was less than 10:1. How much does that differ from your estimate elsewhere?
[Genuinely interested in peoples’ thought process during an exchange like above from a “how do we manage to talk past eachother even in a good faith rational discourse?” angle]