I read some linguistics books a while back, and more recently I’ve been reading (against my better judgement) Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus. So, I’ve been thinking about word length and concept importance a lot.
Question 1:Should we be picking one or two syllable words for phrases/concepts central to thinking better? Is the hit to interpretability (which LessWrong is not really optimised for as is) worth it? What other significant costs am I missing?
[Question] What words should be shorter in the rational dictionary?
I read some linguistics books a while back, and more recently I’ve been reading (against my better judgement) Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus. So, I’ve been thinking about word length and concept importance a lot.
Question 1: Should we be picking one or two syllable words for phrases/concepts central to thinking better? Is the hit to interpretability (which LessWrong is not really optimised for as is) worth it? What other significant costs am I missing?
Question 2: Which phrases/concepts?