"Homesteading" is a good attempt. Scott Alexander called this "concept handling" - stick a handle onto a concept to render it legible. I call it semantic imperialism: thinkers are extending their tendrils towards new forms of legibility. And here you also devolve into semantic gerrymandering or warfare. We fight quite hard for what words do and/or should mean: it is a form of intellectual territorialism. It is a very interesting space - what I refer to as the "truth landscape".
"Homesteading" is a good attempt. Scott Alexander called this "concept handling" - stick a handle onto a concept to render it legible. I call it semantic imperialism: thinkers are extending their tendrils towards new forms of legibility. And here you also devolve into semantic gerrymandering or warfare. We fight quite hard for what words do and/or should mean: it is a form of intellectual territorialism. It is a very interesting space - what I refer to as the "truth landscape".
Another concept I associate with you that I don’t think you invented but has reappeared: “The optimal amount of fraud is not zero.”
Also I see you were cited by Matt Levine today. Awesome! Hopefully you can now negotiate some treaty against composing the longest daily newsletter?