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sfinktoday at 3:44 AM1 replyview on HN

I'd like to congratulate you on writing a wall of text that gave off all the signals of being written by a conspiracy theorist or crank or someone off their meds, yet also such that when I bothered to read it, I found it to be completely level-headed. Nothing you claimed felt the least bit outrageous to me. I actually only read it because it looked like it was going to be deliciously unhinged ravings.


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strogonofftoday at 8:19 AM

“The meaning of words and concepts is derived entirely from relationships between concepts” would be a pretty outrageous statement to me.

The meaning of words is derived from our experience of reality.

Words is how the experiencing self classifies experienced reality into a lossy shared map for the purposes of communication with other similarly experiencing selves, and without that shared experience words are meaningless, no matter what graph you put them in.

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