FrozenVoid

8 年前discuss

Most of reddit content is facebook-tier entertaiment, I have to create a filter script to block thousands of irrelevant subreddits to increase signal-to-noise ratio. (filter script in question: http://void.wikidot.com/code:reddit-contentfilter-user-js )

FrozenVoid

8 年前discuss

Related: HN has third party customizable RSS feeds. https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

FrozenVoid

9 年前discuss

I'm not afraid of what Toki Pona is now, its the whole reductionist attitude("one picture worth a thousand words") that strips semantic load from communication, restricting the communication to "just fundamentals" as if we meant to be a primitive culture that can't express complex ideas. You can see this attitude with emojis and SMS-speech, which both reduce the intellectual effort to level of pre-school chat, which feels less of a cognitive load than full communication of adults. Its like a mind-virus that makes you less inclined to form complex thoughts, or anything more expressive than a pair of emojis. Toki Pona is essentially a set of about a hundred emojis in text form. When there is semantic gap, Toki Pona users have to juggle around and combine their emoji-words to get a generic feel of the idea, just like emoji-users have to deal with limited conceptual space by composition.

FrozenVoid

9 年前discuss

The idea isn't new, 1984 explores what such restricted language become: a tool for restricting thought(Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) by limiting the conceptual space of language speakers("Double-plus-ungood"). Toki Pona is a form of Newspeak, not some mind-expanding tool. By replacing signified concepts with primitive composition and generic fit-all 'thought-idea' it removes all abstract meaning to what is essentially emotional picture of a concept(e.g. "belly-feel" of 1984).

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