Indeed, this post is more focused on breaking people out of one set of concepts rather than fully explaining another because it’s a long process to explain the thing I’m pointing at and this post was a way for me to play with writing about a couple ideas I had for a larger writing project.
If it’s not worth you’re time, that’s well worth knowing!
It is not worth my time because I already understand the thing you are trying to communicate. Or so I believe.
If you are trying to get me to “look up” and “look away from my phone”, but we are communicating over phones, so how do I demonstrate I already know to do this?
If you are trying to get me to see the truth beyond words and concepts, but we are communicating in words, so how do I demonstrate I already don’t see words as the truth?
I also feel that maybe you have gone too far in on that one, and from realizing that words are not, in themselves, the truth, decided to assume that words cannot meaningfully connect to the truth at all. And that the only way to get people to see the truth is to “crash their program”, is to force them to “look up”?
What does it matter if you’ve demonstrated you know something to me? I’m just some guy posting things on Less Wrong.
I never said that words cannot meaningfully connect to truth or any other thing. Words are clearly quite useful for pointing at stuff about the world! I only claimed that this connection is not independent of our motivations.
Indeed, this post is more focused on breaking people out of one set of concepts rather than fully explaining another because it’s a long process to explain the thing I’m pointing at and this post was a way for me to play with writing about a couple ideas I had for a larger writing project.
If it’s not worth you’re time, that’s well worth knowing!
Thanks, that clarifies your position somewhat.
It is not worth my time because I already understand the thing you are trying to communicate. Or so I believe.
If you are trying to get me to “look up” and “look away from my phone”, but we are communicating over phones, so how do I demonstrate I already know to do this?
If you are trying to get me to see the truth beyond words and concepts, but we are communicating in words, so how do I demonstrate I already don’t see words as the truth?
I also feel that maybe you have gone too far in on that one, and from realizing that words are not, in themselves, the truth, decided to assume that words cannot meaningfully connect to the truth at all. And that the only way to get people to see the truth is to “crash their program”, is to force them to “look up”?
What does it matter if you’ve demonstrated you know something to me? I’m just some guy posting things on Less Wrong.
I never said that words cannot meaningfully connect to truth or any other thing. Words are clearly quite useful for pointing at stuff about the world! I only claimed that this connection is not independent of our motivations.