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Comment by kolya911 on A Weird Trick To Manage Your Identity · 2016-10-06T02:16:40.997Z · LW · GW

I got banned from Gleb's intentional insights for speaking my mind about this article.

This argues for creation of pseudo-speak or 1984 newspeak where commonly understood word gets a new "fuzzier" meaning...

"I'm a weird lawyer, I sometimes like when my clients lose" lets me forget that I'm actually paid to be an advocate for any client that retained me.

Play out a few examples in your mind and you see how quickly very firm word-concepts lose meaning