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. -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
