How real is real?
by Paul Watzlawick · first published 1976
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"You cannot not communicate" -- Paul Watzlawick[1] Incidentally, most of his writing is pretty amazing. "How Real is Real?", for example. One of my favorite example is the experiment where two people are (ostensibly, as in all psychology experiments) asked to figure out how to spot disease patterns in certainly images of…
on “The Economics of Status (2006)” ↗"Pragmatics of Human Communication" by Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, and Donald D. Jackson followed by "How Real is Real?" by the same author.
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗It is fundamentally unsolvable problem. Many literature about it from fiction like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Grove Through pop sci https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/789727.How_Real_Is_Real_ All the way to the deepest epistemological problems. The main reason is similar to why AGI cannot be achieved — it is impossible to achieve something that you can’t or haven’t clearly defined first.
on “Ask HN: Is misinformation a solvable problem?” ↗