[ExI] Aristotle on trolling

[Anders Sandberg]

Yes, I have given copies to friends in politics. I just wanted a link 
for my post.


On 2016-05-09 23:48, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=frankfurt&sts=t&tn=on+bullshit
>
> At least one copy ships from the UK, so you should have no trouble 
> getting it.  This company is the one I use when Amazon lacks a book or 
> the price is higher.  bill w
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se 
> <mailto:anders at aleph.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 2016-05-08 21:08, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
>>     ​
>>
>>     I am reminded of Frankfurt's classic "On bullshit":
>>     http://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/bullshit/pdf/on-bullshit.pdf
>>
>>
>>     I am not sure what this is - perhaps the author's summer?.  I
>>     have the book, available from Amazon, and it's 67 pages.
>
>     It has been published in at least three different forms. The book
>     is probably the most common, but I did not find it online.
>
>     The Swedish humorist Tage Danielsson wrote an independent and
>     brilliant precursor, "Grallimatik" (1966) where he argues that
>     most talking is not about communicating information, but simply
>     social status games and nice sounds. So he outlines a grammar,
>     semantics and style guide for vacuous talking. It is a hilarious
>     satire, but actually making Frankfurt's point decades earlier.
>     Nothing new under the sun, as Aristotle tweeted.
>
>     -- 
>     Anders Sandberg
>     Future of Humanity Institute
>     Oxford Martin School
>     Oxford University
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Anders Sandberg
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