My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land

Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by klodolph on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:48PM (#12116763)

I think "capitalism" and "free trade" are similarly without clear definitions, given the amount of time people spend arguing about them.

This seems to be a consistent truth. Perhaps we should develop tools to be able to converse with people who don't use the same definitions that we do?

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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by ktRolster on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:33PM (#12117132)

I agree with you on capitalism, so it is another word I tend to avoid. I try to say things in a way that I will be understood.

I don't know about "free trade," though, what sorts of alternate definitions are people using for that?

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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by klodolph on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:46PM (#12117237)

People seem to have disagreements over how much regulation and what kind of regulation you would have before trade is no longer considered free trade.

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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by nitrogen on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:05PM (#12126594)

Maybe give people a survey to assign a word2vec-like coordinate to their beliefs about each term, and then tell them which term is actually closest to their belief vector?

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