Sounds reasonable to me. I think this thread is just the way online discourse tends to go. Actually it’s probably better than average, but still sometimes disappointing.
Sounds reasonable to me. I think this thread is just the way online discourse tends to go. Actually it’s probably better than average, but still sometimes disappointing.
i played with this a bit the other night and ironically i think everyone should give it a shot as an alternative mode they might sometimes switch into. but not to save tokens, but instead to.. see things in a different light.
its kind of great for the "eli5", not because it's any more right or wrong, but sometimes presenting it in caveman presents something to me in a way that's almost like... really clear and simple. it feels like it cuts through bullshit just a smidge. seeing something framed by a caveman in a couple of occasions peeled back a layer i didnt see before.
it, for whatever reason, is useful somehow to me, the human. maybe seeing it laid out to you in caveman bulletpoints gives you this weird brevity that processes a little differently. if you layer in caveman talk about caves, tribes, etc it has sort of a primal survivalship way of framing things, which can oddly enough help me process an understanding.
plus it makes me laugh. which keeps me in a good mood.
Interesting point! Based on what you said, in a way caveman does save your human brain tokens. Grammar rules evolve in a particular environment to reduce ambiguities and I think we are all familiar enough with caveman for it to make sense to all of us as a common. For example, word order matters for semantics in modern english so "The dog bit the grandma" and "Dog bit grandma" mean the same. Coming from languages where cases matter for semantics (like German), word order alone does not resolve ambiguity. Articles exist in English due to its Germanic roots
Now I want to try programming in pigeon English
A pidgin is just a simplified form of language that hasn't evolved into its own new language yet. There are many English pidgins.
It's much easier to talk about how something is deficient/untested than to do the testing yourself.
The same site that complains so much about replication crises in science too...