Emile comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 September 2012 08:29:50AM 7 points [-]

You're welcome.

You seem to be one of the list elders, so to speak, so I've got a tangential question for you.

I see occasional references to Korzybski, and the Map is Not The Territory sequence article. "Tabooing a word" is just the kind of semantic hygiene practice of which he had zillions - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he originated "tabooing a word".

But I don't get the impression that a lot of people here have read his work, or if they did, few have interest. What's your sense of the level of familiarity with and interest in Korzybski here?

Comment author: Emile 10 September 2012 11:46:28AM 2 points [-]

But I don't get the impression that a lot of people here have read his work, or if they did, few have interest. What's your sense of the level of familiarity with and interest in Korzybski here?

I've seen a few references, and the impression I got is that the sequence on words overlaps a lot with Korzybski's General Semantics.