Words are good. Making more good words is good. Being better and faster at making more good words would be more good. Maybe we can get better and faster at making more good words by working together.

This blog contains most of my public writing. If you'd like to talk with me, you can email me at my gmail address, which has the username: [first part of blog URL] + 'contact' I like to see behind things. I have many ideas for cool things to make, so if you want to make cool things I think of (example: hyperphone ), email me. If you want to make words you can go to lexicogenesis.zulipchat.com . If you're a person who has a streak of fanaticism for decreasing the probability that all human value is destroyed (by AGI), email me. If you're a woman and might want to go out with me, email me. I live in the Bay Area and want to have kids (preferably a lot) (with the right person). I'd be a great father. If you're a biologist or a linguist and are open to just shooting the shit, email me. (Or if you know a whole lot about something.) If you want to go hiking in the middle of the night, email me. If you want to go ice skating, email me. If you want to figure out...

When two people disagree about a proposition even though they've thought about it alot, the disagreement is often hard to resolve. There's a gulf of data, concepts, intuitions, experiences, inferences . Some of this gulf has to be resolved by the two people individually trying to collate and present their own positions more clearly and legibly, so that they can build up concepts and propositions in whoever is receiving the model. Also, most new understanding comes from people working on their own or with others who are already synced up——for the most part they already agree on what and how to investigate, they have shared context of past experience and data, they agree on background assumptions, they have a shared language, they trust each other. But still, a lot of value comes from debate. The debaters are forced to make their evidence and logic legible. Ideas are tested against other ideas from another at least somewhat coherent perspective. Analogies and disanalogies are dr...