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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by _0ffh on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:25AM (#26619179)
Yup, language is a sort of compressed code that exploits model biases. If the receiver's model is biased in a different way than the sender's model decoding fidelity plummets.

Put differently, expectation is half of sensing. That insight goes back at least as far as Helmholtz.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by DyslexicAtheist on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:48AM (#26620247)
please also take into account that unlike theoretical systems the real world is a constantly moving target. the moment that I've formed an opinion it is probably already outdated within the nano-second an additional thought has entered my subconscious and is waiting to be integrated into what I think is my "truth".
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