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[uǝlƃ ☤>$]

Here's what I posted, for clarity. Your taking 1 sentence out of context is ... [ahem] ... slop.

On 10/12/21 11:13 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> "General Semantics" reminds me of this guy: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Raniere
> 
> or perhaps this guy:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
> 
> (Funny story: We met a customer at the pub the other day who calls himself "Captain". When I asked him "What are you the Captain of?", the bartender answered "The Royal Scotman".)
> 
> More seriously, though, the essentialist program that seems buried in (or perhaps mistakenly accused of) General Semantics seems problematic. It reminds me a bit of the intuitively attractive, but ultimately false, MBPT:
> 
> Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
> https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
> 
> which, since we seem to care about AI is unfortunately used: https://v6.typefocus.com/
> 
> As always, the misunderstood geniuses (e.g. Robert Rosen) tend toward the rhetoric that any flaws others find with the system is due to their own lack of effort ... or lack of persistence. But, as Jochen points out, it literally does not matter whether a Country song is good or not. What matters is whether a silly dance on TikTok goes viral.


On 10/12/21 1:57 PM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> "I post here because I like contextually laden posts."
> 
> Ha. If only. Most of my posts (as well as just about everyone else that
> attempts to write meaningfully) are met with banality with probability near
> one, so don't give me that slop. You made a claim about something
> mattering:
> 
> *"What matters is whether a silly dance on TikTok goes viral."*
> 
> I sincerely asked what it means to matter and I followed my question with
> content that you may or may not value, but hey. As far as my pithy remark
> from weeks ago, I thought I was doing you a favor. You strike me as having
> a religious devotion to balance, and I was pointing out where you were off.
> I thought you would appreciate the spot.

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☤>$ uǝlƃ