I have no clue how to determine which of the following contribute how much to any given disagreement:
human irrationality and inability to update correctly on new information.
(related to #1) human cognitive and attention limits—just can’t remember and process enough to really understand the content of very complicated attempts at communication.
misalignment (adversarial/competitive motives for (mis)communication).
many other obstacles.
imperfections in language .
My intuition is that #5 is pretty far down the list, ESPECIALLY if you separate “imperfect understanding of context of the speaker and their reasons for communication choices” as a new bullet point.
This leads me to believe that language does evolve, but it won’t make much of a dent in the conflict and disagreement we see among people.
I have no clue how to determine which of the following contribute how much to any given disagreement:
human irrationality and inability to update correctly on new information.
(related to #1) human cognitive and attention limits—just can’t remember and process enough to really understand the content of very complicated attempts at communication.
misalignment (adversarial/competitive motives for (mis)communication).
many other obstacles.
imperfections in language .
My intuition is that #5 is pretty far down the list, ESPECIALLY if you separate “imperfect understanding of context of the speaker and their reasons for communication choices” as a new bullet point.
This leads me to believe that language does evolve, but it won’t make much of a dent in the conflict and disagreement we see among people.