i especially, especially love long form, well-researched, extremely nuanced articles like the following
https://www.gwern.net/Collecting
language is an abstraction of our environment. no matter how many words we use to describe a particular situation, we will inevitably fall short of all the little minutiae that we would have understood by just being in that situation.
that is to say, a verbal description of a situation is inevitably a form of lossy compression.
until humans evolve the ability of lossless compression, questions will always be loaded, and rhetoric will always be charged, whether unintentionally or intentionally.
of course it was the french who defined static analysis
文字之教
Life in Tokyo, 1910 by Jukichi Inouye
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