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MattG comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, December 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: polymathwannabe 01 December 2015 10:37PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2015 09:09:51PM 0 points [-]

But as soon as you try to get these words into popular perception their meaning will shift to the simplest meaning regardless.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 December 2015 09:40:38PM 0 points [-]

There's nothing inherently complex about the meaning of the terms System I and System II. They are just as simply as other binary distinction. The difference is that they slice reality elsewhere. The concepts in common usage aren't in common usage because they are simple.

New terms can teach people to slice reality in new ways.