I suspect the majority of drift in concepts comes from simple misunderstandings/playing a game of telephone and memetic selection. This leads to more politically charged and simple definitions, without any need for negative intent. I suspect providing other related concepts won’t help with this besides maybe delaying the drift by a few weeks, but it at least seems worth trying.
However, when actually trying to put your suggestions into practice I’m at a loss as to how to do that. For instance, I’m writing a post naming and explaining different types of risk. It’s not clear to me how to make a type of risk sound good. I’m also unsure how to go about introducing other words that are clearly bad in the same post that are more general, without having the post become completely off-topic and rambling.
I suspect the majority of drift in concepts comes from simple misunderstandings/playing a game of telephone and memetic selection. This leads to more politically charged and simple definitions, without any need for negative intent. I suspect providing other related concepts won’t help with this besides maybe delaying the drift by a few weeks, but it at least seems worth trying.
However, when actually trying to put your suggestions into practice I’m at a loss as to how to do that. For instance, I’m writing a post naming and explaining different types of risk. It’s not clear to me how to make a type of risk sound good. I’m also unsure how to go about introducing other words that are clearly bad in the same post that are more general, without having the post become completely off-topic and rambling.
The “deal with political muddying” is definitely the hardest one and I’m least confident you can do anything about it.