[Pile of links] Miscommunication
post by Grognor · 2012-02-21T22:02:31.792Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 commentsContents
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Humans obviously can't communicate.
Miscommunication is something we talk about Less Wrong a lot, what with the illusion of transparency, the double illusion of transparency, and the 37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong sequence and better disagreement and levels of communication and mental metadata and this (not to mention Robin Hanson's Disagreement is Near/Far Bias). I thought about writing a new top-level post about it with some of the links I've found, but I figure they say all I could have said.
Here you go:
- The Curse of Knowledge at Measure of Doubt (mostly a rephrasing of what we know from the above posts).
- Seven Causes of Disagreement at Spencer Greenberg's blog.
- 4 Reasons Humans Will Never Understand Each Other at Cracked.
- Wiio's Laws. This is the big one. This is the one that says it all. Do read them. Apparently, this doesn't happen to everyone, but after reading that page I started seeing Wiio's laws everywhere.
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comment by [deleted] · 2012-02-21T22:06:27.375Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Wiio's Laws. This is the big one. This is the one that says it all. Do read them. Apparently, this doesn't happen to everyone, but after reading that page I started seeing Wiio's laws everywhere.
Or is it the linguistic analog of the Law of Fives? An old friend of mine, obsessed with Star Trek, started seeing 47 everywhere, but of course it was just confirmation bias at play.
comment by Bruno_Coelho · 2012-02-22T07:45:24.041Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
If Wiio's Law is true, then a good part of the Internet is completely useless, and is better to acess only technical content( we already know that), the point is in what proportion. When people try to refrase what was said, it's because occur a failure of comunication, or a misinterpretation, generating unecessary disagreement. Disputing definitions is a signal of something goes wrong in the process.