https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1816462277534457861
we can still find truth even though language is fuzzy
For a data nerd like me, there’s something reassuring about visualizations like these. Yes, language is fuzzy, almost everything is a “spectrum,” and “reality,” whatever that means, is hard to pin down. However, the data reveal a strong underlying degree of agreement about what people mean when they talk about their own handedness. Put another way: handedness is real.
an essential feature of the way language is used to mark out and constantly renegotiate the way we all think about things. Without that give and take, language couldn’t evolve.
https://whoarewenow.net/chapter-02/#handedscorel
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean different things–that’s all.’ >
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master–that’s all’
https://julienposture.substack.com/p/the-ai-doppelganger-experiment-part