Curated. Like Kaj_Sotala said, this concept feels intuitively natural (and useful), and one that I have thought without having a name for it (or very lucid explanation!). It seems right that many sentences are a bundling of lossy compression + checksum + illusion of transparency. Alas. I don’t really like the particular word chosen (and one other LessWrong mod said the same), would be a shame if it didn’t catch on for that reason. (I also liked the concept of “metacog” that Duncan defined elsewhere, but there too feel dissatisfied with the name, like I don’t expect to use the concept with others till I’ve thought of another name.) Still, the concept(s) is good, and a benefit to society that you wrote it up so well!
You probably already know this, but: the “metacog” term comes from “metacognitive blindspot,” i.e. when your metacognition is impaired in a way that prevents you from noticing, via metacognition, that you are impaired.
Indeed ;) Still something about the conjugating feels off. But who knows I also thought “Lightcone” sounded too much like “Ice cream cone” to take off, but well...
Curated. Like Kaj_Sotala said, this concept feels intuitively natural (and useful), and one that I have thought without having a name for it (or very lucid explanation!). It seems right that many sentences are a bundling of lossy compression + checksum + illusion of transparency. Alas. I don’t really like the particular word chosen (and one other LessWrong mod said the same), would be a shame if it didn’t catch on for that reason. (I also liked the concept of “metacog” that Duncan defined elsewhere, but there too feel dissatisfied with the name, like I don’t expect to use the concept with others till I’ve thought of another name.) Still, the concept(s) is good, and a benefit to society that you wrote it up so well!
You probably already know this, but: the “metacog” term comes from “metacognitive blindspot,” i.e. when your metacognition is impaired in a way that prevents you from noticing, via metacognition, that you are impaired.
Indeed ;) Still something about the conjugating feels off. But who knows I also thought “Lightcone” sounded too much like “Ice cream cone” to take off, but well...