The universe is so awesome and crazy and interesting and I can’t wait for when humanity is advanced enough to understand all of it. Until then I’ll be standing by for emotional support because I’m nowhere near smart enough to be doing any of that actually important stuff.
KvmanThinking(Avery Liu)
Karma: 0
Have you heard of the language Toki Pona? It forces you to taboo your words by virtue of the language only containing 120-ish words. It was invented by a linguist named Sonja Lang who was depressed and wanted a language that would force her to break her thoughts into manageable pieces. I’m fluent in it and can confirm that speaking it can get rid of certain confusions like this, but it also creates other, different confusions. [mortal, not-feathers, biped] has 3 confusions in it while [human] only has 1. Tabooing a word splits the confusion into 3 pieces. If we said [mortal, not-feathers, biped] instead of human, that could result in ambiguities related to bipedal-ness (what about creatures that are observed to sometimes walk on 2 legs and sometimes 4), lack of feathers (do porcupine quills count) and mortal (i forgot where i read this or if it’s true but apparently there are some microorganisms that can be reanimated by other microorganisms)
“I invoke Crockers.”
Nope. No no no. Nononononono. Our happiness baselines are part of us. Those with high happiness baselines have less utility in other ways in the form of not needing to look for things to make them happier. Those with low happiness baselines have less utility simply by having a lower happiness baseline. It’s part of who we are. You are welcome to delete it in your brain without a qualm, but I’m fine with my set level of happiness. The lowness of my baseline is what makes me create, what makes me think of interesting ideas of things to do.