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rel: Where New Words Come From
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Complete strange rant here, struggling to understand and express. Beware.
There is too much focus on the language layer of a concept here as well.
Can we reach a point of conceptual stagnation just by our environment? (take a walk and be creative humanity.) What would an inner concept look like (if we are too conceptual, can we look inward and refine points to develop new concepts, rather than “outward”)
Where are new words/concepts formed and adopted? Like if you imagined the population of the earth as some shifting tectonic plates, would there be a conceptual layer where frictions between the plates produce magma from the core that splashes into the sky and solidifies onto other language speaker.
I’ve been obsessed with communication with the impossible, or really orthogonal intelligences (like encountering Lem’s Solaris) and a kind of romance with attempting communication here.
I don’t mean a new word as in some kind of shift into another word based around the same concept, or slang. I am talking a new word, or concept with maximum divorce.
I am wondering about how to produce the completely novel. rel:Unoriginal Genius by Marjorie Perloff
We think of our language as expressive but there is limited language (because we are so limited in what we need to speak), it isn’t infinite, it’s constrained, language is functional so limited states seem necessary to communicate (I’m a guy on earth). You can’t fully experiment or be isolated with nobody having the time nor access to understand where you’re going.
We need to explore to find new language, based on new experiences.
This is why LLM is deceptively effective. Limited new speech and uncleverness of practical, functional language.
The human day is:
- get up
- eat
- work
- eat
- sleep And other important bits.
I can step out my box a bit, maybe stumble on a novel-ish concept, or spend my life to development of a piece of research but still it is hewn close to the block of humanity.
The majority of people would probably converge at one point (often being guided or primed.) You might think yourself clever and apply some higher order thinking (I’ll not do this, but I’ll do anti-this offset by a bit.) But this is still captured.