There are multiple independent insights I’m trying to communicate in this post, so I don’t expect to be able to express it all in the title. I do want a title that’s relevant and memorable (to help chunk the information here), eye-catching (so people read it), and simple (so people who like non-technical stuff read it), and that doesn’t worsen the problem. I went with ‘Reality is weirdly normal’ because I figured the paradoxical appearance would make it harder to come up with a harmful pet interpretation, forcing readers to use my detailed explanations to generate reasonable semantic values for the title. Feel free to suggest other title options; I may well change it.
If by “as humanity sees it” you mean “observed reality,” okay
Yeah, that phrasing is definitely less confusing. I prefer it, but in context it doesn’t clearly contrast with the divine or demonic observation I use for the other sense of ‘normal’. How about “as humanity perceives it” in place of “as humanity sees it”? It’s still not 100% transparent, but it at least is less idiomatically tied to belief.
I like your analogy!
There are multiple independent insights I’m trying to communicate in this post, so I don’t expect to be able to express it all in the title. I do want a title that’s relevant and memorable (to help chunk the information here), eye-catching (so people read it), and simple (so people who like non-technical stuff read it), and that doesn’t worsen the problem. I went with ‘Reality is weirdly normal’ because I figured the paradoxical appearance would make it harder to come up with a harmful pet interpretation, forcing readers to use my detailed explanations to generate reasonable semantic values for the title. Feel free to suggest other title options; I may well change it.
Yeah, that phrasing is definitely less confusing. I prefer it, but in context it doesn’t clearly contrast with the divine or demonic observation I use for the other sense of ‘normal’. How about “as humanity perceives it” in place of “as humanity sees it”? It’s still not 100% transparent, but it at least is less idiomatically tied to belief.