(epistemic status: experimental new format! Optimized for memetic power. Fun and useful refactorings of classic ideas about language.)
(note: this post was originally made as a slide deck and lives as a pdf here. Color coding of ideas was inspired by abramdemski and turntroat. Since this is a bunch of images, the links don’t work, and I’ve collected them all at the bottom of the post)
“I didn’t succeed in tracking down the original docs, but this interview has a lot of context and quotes that lay out a pretty solid case.”
“From the Genocide Convention of 1948, there are several more articles specifying things like how international courts are supposed to work, and what “punishment” entails.”
When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions
(epistemic status: experimental new format! Optimized for memetic power. Fun and useful refactorings of classic ideas about language.)
(note: this post was originally made as a slide deck and lives as a pdf here. Color coding of ideas was inspired by abramdemski and turntroat. Since this is a bunch of images, the links don’t work, and I’ve collected them all at the bottom of the post)
“Love that energy Jaynes!”
Necessary and Sufficient
Family Resemblance
Words as Hidden Inferences
How an Algorithm Feels from the Inside
A Human’s Guide to Words
View from nowhere
“Al Capone has a point”
Reality tunnels
Blind Men and the elephant
Formal Logic
Implication
Proof trees
Rwandan Genocide
Radio address given on April 30th, 1994
Ghosts of Rwanda
Machete Season
“I didn’t succeed in tracking down the original docs, but this interview has a lot of context and quotes that lay out a pretty solid case.”
“From the Genocide Convention of 1948, there are several more articles specifying things like how international courts are supposed to work, and what “punishment” entails.”
General Romeo Dallaire, on the ground in Rwanda.
“Just a year earlier the U.S had been badly burned with an attempted intervention in a Somalian civil war.”
Conflict Is Not Abuse