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Exactly. Marcus said it well with something like "If the compiler doesn’t do what one expects, one probably expects wrong." We can translate that to human intercommunication. If people react in unexpected ways to what you said, perhaps change your expectations of how people will react to what you said. No sense of clarity is necessary, only repeatability and reliability. E.g. I don't particularly care whether my cat thinks that laser dot is a bug or not. What I care about is that he demonstrates his agility chasing it around the room. I seem to have developed a bit of a palsy as I age. And on days when it's bad, he *really* chases it ... like with gusto. But on days when my hand is steady, I have to fake the palsy to get him to engage completely. Why? I don't care. But I know it to be True.

This reminds me of homomorphic encryption, computing over encrypted things.

On 1/25/21 3:41 PM, jon zingale wrote:
> The computer interprets both of Glen's *root* functions as being different,
> so clarity walks a very different line there. Only sometimes do we get the
> extensional equivalence of functions. Clarity, in a broader sense, often
> requires substitution.

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