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There are too many situations where minor semantic quibbles are blown up into huge behavior problems; technicalities they lawyers would call them.

It happens across social contexts.

I’m convinced human language is good for nothing but the human equivalent of prompt injection.

Humanoids went millions of years before language intuiting “enough” food, warmth. We evolved to measure the gradients that make up our emotions. Social philosophy short circuits that connection to self.

Religion forced humans to serve a shared hallucination. Nation states are a similar constraint on human state.

There’s evidence in neuroscience teenage brains devalue moms voice for new info sources. Does not seem unreasonable this could be a lifelong thing. 13-14 years ago cloud and crud apps took off, now we’re moving onto AI.

Pop culture trends seem to fluctuate around similar timelines, though I admit to not measuring it. Just thinking out loud.

Obligation to preserve social language norms may one day be found to be a cause of much mental illness. We evolved for quite a while without them.



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