In many ways, how we communicate words to each other matter. Especially the words we use to describe periods of history, or moments in time. Take "The Enlightment" or "The Renaissance" - these words are now loaded with history itself (get it) and that means we can't use it collectively to describe another period. They start to form an identity on its own that we can't unsubscribe to mimetically

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It’s like how people co-opt “Cambrian Explosion” and “Bronze Age” today to mean exponential progress or regression.

Or how decade abbreviations like “the ’20s” or “the ’80s” don’t make sense a century later.

I miss that we used to speak about the decades as they were unfolding. Now that's been replaced by talking about generations, emphasizing the time one was born instead of the times we are all currently living in

We each have our own contextually biased LLMs running in our heads. No word has the exact same context in 2 different heads.