Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I wish our culture was better at honestly expressing our level of uncertainty, and being okay and encouraging of other people doing the same. Having widely-understood ways to say "based on what I know now, I think X, but this is a preliminary opinion and I am super-willing to adjust based on new arguments or evidence".
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I've seen ideas for conlangs that include a mandatory tense-like inflection for either "this is why I think what I'm saying" or "I think this with [high / medium / low] confidence". Would be interesting to import into English.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
Damn I should try to find the podcast but there was a guy who lived under Mussolini who also thought this was the heart of the problem with dictatorship and created a conlang for it. It turned out not to be very popular but somehow ended in the creating of American Sign Language (?) lm see if I can find the pod
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