Or, you know, a utility-maximizing actor found it utility-increasing to place certain words into certain sequences in certain contexts due to the expected effect said arrangement would have upon the expected audience?
It's not terribly complicated.
I get your point and I in fact agree. I just wanted to say that that is a sentence structure that only a programmer could find beautiful :)
Re:The Moldbug Variations
by kwhitefoot on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:57AM
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The sentence flows perfectly well. Not sure anyone would find it beautiful but it is certainly succinct and expressive.
Then again it's also possible that he's massively inconsistent and full of contradictions. Humans are not perfectly philosophically consistent robots. Contradiction is more normal than not. Peoples' beliefs often come more from emotional affinities and cultural bias than reason.