I think I first came across this idea in a Paul Graham essay, [ beating the averages | emphasis added ]:
You can’t trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they’re satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs.
C2wiki’s critique for the [ essay | blub paradox ].
Linguistic ping back: [ Linguistic Determinism ] [ Sapir / Whorf ] [ Alfred Korzybski ]
[ Programming Languages Shape Thoughts ] and [ Martin Rinard, teaching general thinking through programming concepts ]
And I was thinking about neural equilibration. [ Clarence Luther Herrick: from the 1890s ]
[ The Equilibration of Neural Propositions ]: such a beautiful name for a paper!
Should I print a T-shirt reading *languageParanoid* now?
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