Incidentally: once, I wrote a speech for a solstice that was sort of a Very Early Proto Version of this blogpost, that talked about how Solstice was the ultimate Schelling Holiday. And the person who ended up giving the speech swapped out the word “Schelling” for “default”, presumably because they thought Schelling was an overused word that rationalists accidentally used when inappropriate.
And I was silently like “noooo it was very technically important that it be ‘Schelling’ in this context” but also there was a million things going on and we were tired and overworked and probably nobody other than me would notice, so I let it go.
Incidentally: once, I wrote a speech for a solstice that was sort of a Very Early Proto Version of this blogpost, that talked about how Solstice was the ultimate Schelling Holiday. And the person who ended up giving the speech swapped out the word “Schelling” for “default”, presumably because they thought Schelling was an overused word that rationalists accidentally used when inappropriate.
And I was silently like “noooo it was very technically important that it be ‘Schelling’ in this context” but also there was a million things going on and we were tired and overworked and probably nobody other than me would notice, so I let it go.
It seems to me that if you are aiming to be compatible with aliens using a lot of words that are eponymous runs contrary to that asthetic.
I mean, the aliens don’t speak English, period. I’m also not trying to communicate with them, just feel connected/oriented.