From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-07-07, D  wrote:   
      
   > Found this article and thought that you might be   
   > interested. What will happen when we no longer have a   
   > shared world of facts which we can refer to?   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > Transcribed from Twitter. The author took it down because   
   > of harassment, so I am not going to point to who they   
   > were. Not that I know anything about them anyway. So you   
   > have to make your own tricky call about whether and how   
   > it is relevant.   
      
   I'm with "W. Greenhouse", who replied:   
      
   >> Found this article and thought that you might be   
   >> interested. What will happen when we no longer have a   
   >> shared world of facts which we can refer to?   
   >   
   > When was this not the case?   
      
   Of course, I want to go further. How could there *possibly*   
   be a "shared world of facts" when such would necessarily   
   consist of nothing but words, and a primary aspect of   
   individuality is an utterly private/isolated "conceptuality   
   space" (usually called "mind") in which words have been   
   assigned utterly private/isolated meanings due to having   
   come to "know" them in so private/isolated a conceptuality   
   context?   
      
   --   
   Oh, for the love of signature silliness....   
      
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