DECREASE THE COST OF OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE BY INCREASING YOUR USE OF SPECTRA INST

DECREASE THE COST OF OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE BY INCREASING YOUR USE OF SPECTRA INSTEAD OF ABSTRACTIONS.

Operational language is extremely tedious both intellectually in the effort it takes to construct it, and in verbosity, in the number of words required to state it.

But the principle means of simplifying operational language is to speak in spectra, where the relationship between the different terms is far more informative, and far less open to misinterpretation and misuse, than any other method of expression we are capable of.

So learn to speak in spectra. There are not so many candidates as you would assume. As a rule of thumb if you can organize three you have constructed a candidate, and if you can organize six you have likely constructed a proof.

And as a consequence, you will make obvious that the relationship between monopoly concepts (ideal types), the desire for monopoly opinions, and the desire for monopoly governments, is caused by the same cognitive bias: the cost in complexity of comparing each additional dimension we must contribute to any comparison, and the inability of most people to construct and use such comparisons.

In fact, this is possibly the most useful test of intelligence: how many causal axis can you compare? I suspect that this is as accurate a description of the ‘every ten points’ of intelligence rule, as is the method of learning.