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For example, let's take the simple question: "How old are you?" First, there's a single sign for "question." So for a question about someone's age, you'd use the motion for question with the motion for "winter". How many winters are you? That's what I ask. In PISL you measure months by moons, days by the sun. And to refer to different times of day, you would show hand placement according to the position of the sun in the sky. So this sign for morning, afternoon, or night.
Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, simple. As a society, there’s plenty of it to go around but it’s distributed stupidly, unjustly, and inefficiently.
Class Reductionist
ongoing by Tim Bray
As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth both display similar characteristics under that lens. That means that gaining extra capacity to understand what is going on, more clarity into the actions and functioning of the system is not likely to make your situation more comfortable in the long term; it's just going to expand how much you can accomplish while staying on that edge of understandability.
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
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