This depends a lot on your audience and your purpose(s) in performing these acts of communication. In MANY cases, expecially in public where the audience is unknown and varied (you often have a model of your target, but it will be seen and judged by many with very different epistemic and intent characteristics), there’s a HUGE advantage to this indirection, and in fact it’s often the case that there are no objective facts you’re trying to convey, just different models and weights of interpretation.
Note that this isn’t disagreement—I fully agree that a whole lot (most, in fact) of communcation isn’t actually about “true” communication of ideas or beliefs, it’s about status, persuasion, and memetic spread.
This depends a lot on your audience and your purpose(s) in performing these acts of communication. In MANY cases, expecially in public where the audience is unknown and varied (you often have a model of your target, but it will be seen and judged by many with very different epistemic and intent characteristics), there’s a HUGE advantage to this indirection, and in fact it’s often the case that there are no objective facts you’re trying to convey, just different models and weights of interpretation.
Note that this isn’t disagreement—I fully agree that a whole lot (most, in fact) of communcation isn’t actually about “true” communication of ideas or beliefs, it’s about status, persuasion, and memetic spread.