News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Write Simply.

Re:Write Simply by johnchristopher on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:12PM (#26427098)
> the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there.

Ah, the good old wrong idea that somehow language is a tool that can clone ideas from one brain to another. It doesn't work like that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Write Simply by davidivadavid on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:50PM (#26427546)
Right. I'm surprised at how little thought people seem to have put into that idea.

You can hear echoes of that when Musk talks about all the Neuralink stuff and just communicating with "pure thoughts" or whatever. What these pure thoughts and ideas, disconnected from language, are supposed to be, is left as an exercise to the listener.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Write Simply by johnchristopher on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:47PM (#26428827)
I am coming from this angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle_model
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Write Simply by just1morething on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:51PM (#26428874)
Can we write our way from the idea idea? If so, how? If not, why?
[ Parent | on HN ]