Minor point: You write, > I totally agree that there are advantages to fuzzy clusters as well; what I actually think is that we should level up both specificity-superpowers and vagueness-superpowers.
My impression is that vagueness is generally considered undesirable in philosophy, where it has a fairly particular meaning.
If you are going to use “vagueness-superpowers” to mean, “our ability working on big things that happen to be vague”, you might want to include ambiguity, to be more complete.
My guess is that generality would be a better word here (or abstraction, but I think that’s a bit different). My impression is that typically one could build abilities for both generalizations and abstractions. Hopefully the results of this work will not come with much vagueness.
Minor point:
You write,
> I totally agree that there are advantages to fuzzy clusters as well; what I actually think is that we should level up both specificity-superpowers and vagueness-superpowers.
My impression is that vagueness is generally considered undesirable in philosophy, where it has a fairly particular meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vagueness/
If you are going to use “vagueness-superpowers” to mean, “our ability working on big things that happen to be vague”, you might want to include ambiguity, to be more complete.
My guess is that generality would be a better word here (or abstraction, but I think that’s a bit different). My impression is that typically one could build abilities for both generalizations and abstractions. Hopefully the results of this work will not come with much vagueness.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vPHduFch5W6dqoMMe/two-definitions-of-generalization