Stabilizer comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Thomas 03 March 2012 08:04AM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 01 March 2012 07:06:15PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. So by somatic vocabulary, you basically mean composing long complicated moves from short, repeatable sub-moves?

Comment author: khafra 01 March 2012 08:04:24PM 1 point [-]

Basically, yes. Much of the vocabulary has very long descriptions in English, but shorter ones in different arts' parlance; some of it doesn't really have short descriptions anywhere but in the movements of people who've mastered it. The Epistemic Viciousness problem makes it difficult, in general, to find and cleave at the joints.