> I hope 'ad hoc', 'judgements', 'csv' and 'comment' don't carry any strongly positive or negative reactions, nor stereotypes or implications.
I would very much like for us to have a written language that has the same bandwidth as a long form, in-person discussion. But we have to play the hand we've been dealt, not the hand we wish we'd been dealt.
And to be clear, I don't object to your complaint, or consider it unreasonable - quite the contrary: this is the type of conversation I think we need more of. My comment above could have been improved by adding some disclaimers to make it explicit that I am not intending to speak in an "accusatory" manner, but I reckon the vast majority of people would have read it that way, and for good reason. So, apologies for that.
The ideas I had in mind are somewhat (again, limited by the fundamental shortcomings in our written language) captured in here:
> Loaded language (also known as loaded terms, emotive language, high-inference language and language-persuasive techniques) is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations associated with them in order to invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.[1][2][3] Loaded words and phrases have significant emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.
(The intent, emotional, and exploit parts I do not consider at all relevant to this discussion).
The larger, more abstract point that I'd like to make is: reality is infinitely complex, and we as individuals reason upon it with far from infinitely powerful minds. Now, start layering on all the other complexities, like collective reasoning (hampered by language and a variety of other things), necessities of being forced to make incredibly imprecise/coarse group decisions on a strict timeline (our political systems), complex and imperfect incentive systems, asymmetry and inaccuracy of information, advances in some domains (science, technology, industrialization) without corresponding advances in complementary domains (psychology, consciousness, etc), and so forth...and before too long you've got a bit of a mess on your hands.
I would very much like for us to have a written language that has the same bandwidth as a long form, in-person discussion. But we have to play the hand we've been dealt, not the hand we wish we'd been dealt.
And to be clear, I don't object to your complaint, or consider it unreasonable - quite the contrary: this is the type of conversation I think we need more of. My comment above could have been improved by adding some disclaimers to make it explicit that I am not intending to speak in an "accusatory" manner, but I reckon the vast majority of people would have read it that way, and for good reason. So, apologies for that.
The ideas I had in mind are somewhat (again, limited by the fundamental shortcomings in our written language) captured in here:
> Loaded language (also known as loaded terms, emotive language, high-inference language and language-persuasive techniques) is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations associated with them in order to invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.[1][2][3] Loaded words and phrases have significant emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.
(The intent, emotional, and exploit parts I do not consider at all relevant to this discussion).
The larger, more abstract point that I'd like to make is: reality is infinitely complex, and we as individuals reason upon it with far from infinitely powerful minds. Now, start layering on all the other complexities, like collective reasoning (hampered by language and a variety of other things), necessities of being forced to make incredibly imprecise/coarse group decisions on a strict timeline (our political systems), complex and imperfect incentive systems, asymmetry and inaccuracy of information, advances in some domains (science, technology, industrialization) without corresponding advances in complementary domains (psychology, consciousness, etc), and so forth...and before too long you've got a bit of a mess on your hands.