[ExI] language

[William Flynn Wallace]

Thanks Spike

I am something of a word snob (well, actually all-around snob sans
sneering) and dislike the dumbing down by the plebes.  It's just so lazy.
I had a kid at the math school named Sebastian and he DID NOT  have a
nickname or shortening (maybe some lard, though).  I was just amazed.

Do you (plural) think that it will be possible in the not near but not far
future to say to a computer "I want you to write and execute a program to
do xyz." ??  bill w


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:
> extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On Behalf Of *William Flynn
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> *Sent:* Thursday, May 01, 2014 8:41 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] language
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> Been down - tornadoes.  Everything OK
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> Damn the tornadoes, full speed ahead!
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> Glad to hear all are well BillW.
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> What if people decided not to degrade the language and add to it only by
> vote?  The we could quit nicknaming and acronyming etc…
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> That’s kinda what we do.  Terms are introduced, sometimes the proles take
> them and use them, sometimes not.  That process is analogous to voting on
> introducing new terms for a vote.
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> What if people are so genetically constructed that they can do any job and
> everyone rotates jobs?
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> This wouldn’t require genetically constructing people, it requires
> constructing the jobs.  This is what is happening too: jobs are not so much
> dumbed down (actually they are, but that’s another discussion) as jobs are
> generalized to match the most common skills.  I have seen the aerospace
> industry evolve to where it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do them.
> For most of those remaining jobs, it doesn’t really even take an engineer.
> I have seen some of the most successful ones come in with degrees in
> accounting.  I am not kidding.
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